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Demagogues
and Race Riots:
Critical Need
for Rational
Unity to Stop
Spread of Hatred

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Dangerous

Form of

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Race Rioters Shout Anti-Semitic
Slogans; Arab Students Reported
Among Brooklyn Trouble Makers

Jewish merchants in Rochester, N. Y., Harlem and Crown Heights
sections of New York City continue in a state of fright over the events of
the past 10 days that brought havoc to their businesses and resulted in
losses that may run into the millions.
Analyses of the situation by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency showed
that a majority of the 100 stores that were wrecked and looted by Negro
rioters in Rochester during the past weekend were Jewish-owned.
Many of the 900 stores that were looted in the Harlem and the Brook-
lyn Bedford areas were Jewish-owned. While the reports about the Harlem
and Crown Heights pillaging showed that all stores in the areas were
wrecked and many were the properties of the Negroes, the Rochester re-
port stated that Negro-owned shops were skipped.
The Rochester study seems to reveal a pattern of changing neighbor-
hoods and rising tensions.
JTA's survey shows that Rochester's population of 330,000 includes
approximately 25,000 Jews and 35,000 Negroes. Rioting there started in the
area where Joseph Avenue is the main street, inhabited mostly by Negroes
but 90 per cent of whose merchants still are Jews.
Great apprehension is reported by Rabbi Samuel Schrage, organizer of
the safety patrol, The Maccabees, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
He said the troubled area looked like a battlefield.
Many of the wrecked stores, he declared, are Jewish-owned, as judged
by the signs on the storefronts. He stated that many Jews who are members
of CORE had been instructed by CORE leaders to stay away from the
trouble area.
"However," he added, "because the police forces were busy in Bedford-
Stuyvesant, we had to increase the number and strength of our patrols and
will do so again tonight. We had 12 cars cruising the area last night—the
largest group we ever put on duty for self protection."
According to Rabbi Schrage, a number of Arab students had
entered the area from Manhattan to help stir up trouble against
the Jews. He said one Jewish policeman told him he had recog-
nized some of these troublemakers as Arabs. "And this man
knows Arabs," the rabbi said, "because he fought with the Israeli
army during Israel's War of Independence."
The JTA reports on the happenings in Rochester reveal that the
Joseph Avenue area until the World War II period was almost entirely
Jewish, and the majority of the Jewish businessmen, some of whom had
had their businesses there for more than half a century, continued to do
business at their old sites.
"The Jewish businessmen just happened to be there, and were there-

fore the worst sufferers when things suddenly got out of hand Friday
night," said Elmer Lewis, executive director of the Jewish Community
Council of Rochester. The same sentiment was expressed by Police Inspec-
tor Dan Sharpe, acting as spokesman for the city police department.
Observers noted that, during the rioting in the Joseph Avenue section,
the headquarters of CORE and a mosque owned by the Black Muslims, had
been left intact, while Jewish-owned stores flanking these two buildings
were totally destroyed, and the contents looted.
"The Jewish businessmen were not the prime target because they were
Jews, and this outbreak must not be interpreted as anti-Semitism," Lewis
declared. "Primarily, the city faced a breakdown of law and order, but
the Jews were the principal sufferers."
Community leaders, representing both Jews and Christians, including
Negroes, met in the office of Brooklyn Borough President Abe Stark to
map means of dampening down the explosive atmosphere.
Among those attending was Rabbi Benjamin Kreitman, representing
the Brooklyn Jewish Community Council. Rabbi Kreitman also was acting
in his capacity as chairman of the Borough President's Community Action -
Committee.
A spokesman for the Brooklyn JCC said that anti-Semitic slogans had
been yelled by some of the rioters. He added that the concern of the com-
munity leaders was to find means of bringing calm to the crime-wracked
section before matters got much worse. He said the Brooklyn JCC was
ready to "take every step possible not only to protect the Jews in the area
but the community at large."
An interfaith Citizens Committee, composed of representatives of the
Board of Rabbis, Catholic Universal Council and the Protestant Council in
Brooklyn, appealed to Mayor Robert Wagner to take urgent measures to
prevent a repetition of the riots.
Officials of the Brooklyn Jewish Community Council joined with other
civic and religious groups in an effort to persuade Negro civil rights leaders
to postpone for the time being any demonstrations in the Bedford-Stuy-
vesant area of Brooklyn.
More than 400 stores — most of them Jewish-owned — were looted
despite a warning by Mayor Wagner in a radio and television statement that
mob rule would not be tolerated in New York City. Several men were shot
by police and hundreds were arrested, as thousands of rioting Negroes
stormed through the crime-ridden slum section.
Jewish Community Council offcials said that the appeals for post-
ponement of demonstrations were made to enable police to deal more
effectively with looters and hooligans who were using Negro grievance
demonstrations for the widespread looting.

Nasser's Genocide Program for Israel's Total
Destruction Revealed by British Correspondent

NEW YORK (JTA)—The British govern-
ment is "increasingly concerned" over
Nasser's four-pronged campaign for the
destruction of Israel, Terrence Prittie,
diplomatic correspondent for The Guar-
dian, a British newspaper, reports in the
August issue of Atlantic Monthly.
In his article, "Bombshop in the Nile:
Target Israel," Prittie says the four main
features of Nasser's campaign are the re-
moval of the British from military bases in
Aden, Cyprus and Libya; the building of
his conventional arms strength; a crash
program to produce ground-to-ground rock-•
ets; and production of weapons of genocide
of both nuclear and subnuclear types.
The correspondent says that in conven-
tional arms today Egypt has superiority
over Israel, but he pionts out that "two

wars against Israel have convinced Nasser These vessels, Prittie reports, could play
that the Egyptians man for man are no an important part in a saturation attack on
match for the Israelis. Therefore, even an Israeli cities.
"It is believed that Nasser intends to
immense superiority in conventional weap-
ons and in manpower (the population of build between 800 and 1,000 rockets for an
Egypt is ten times that of Israel) would assault on Israel," the report continues.
"This will take him roughly two years at
not guarantee victory in a third war."
"This is why the Egyptians with the vital the present estimated rate of progress. The
help of West German and other foreign key to his success is the continued presence
scientists and technicians have been work- in Egypt, in his employ, of the two dozen
ing on a crash program for the production West German scientists and five to six
of long- and medium-range rockets at their hundred West German and other foreign
factory 333 at Heliopolis, a few miles east technicians who have been there for the
past three years."
of Cairo," Prittie stresses.
Prittie maintains that the senior scien-
Three main types of rockets are being
developed in Egypt, the article says. The tists are paid from $3,000 to $5,000 a month
Egyptians are also building light naval and are generally given free housing and a
craft somewhat smaller than frigates to be domestic staff. "Few of them show the
equipped with launching pads for rockets. slightest desire to return home," he says.

The pay and living conditions of all the
technicians are far better than they would
expect at home, lie states.
Referring to Israeli representations in
Bonn for the recall of the German scien-
tists and technicians, Prittie says: "There
is a powerful pro-Arab lobby in Bonn
where a section of the Christian Demo-
cratic Party and virtually the whole Free
Democratic Party are opposed to any action
which could harm West German trade inter-
ests in the Middle East. West German
heavy industry provides the most powerful
single pro-Arab pressure group and a small
group of firms has considerable influence
with the federal government. This group
includes steel and heavy engineering firms
of Krupp, Thyssen Kloeckner and Demag,
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