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USSR, Israel Clash at Geneva Over Bias;
Lord Russell Appeals Against Anti-Semitism
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recent complaints by Soviet citi-
zens, Lord Russell said that "these
Soviet citizens wish to enjoy the
right to a full cultural life in the
Soviet Union. They are Jews and
they feel that they are denied the
means of living a complete and
satisfying life in the Soviet Union
because they are denied the cul-
ural facilities made available to
.,.01 other national and minority
groups in the USSR."
Asking the magazines to publish
his own letter as well as the copy
of the letter from the Soviet citi-
zen, Lord Russell added: "I write
because I am concerned for jus-
tice and for the good name of the
Soviet Union. Unless people who
are concerned for both raise their
voices, the case of peaceful co-
existence and the pursuit of peace
and general understanding be-
tween peoples and nations will be
harmed by silence."
Israeli, Soviet Diplomats
Quarrel Over Treatment
of Jews at UN Parley
GENEVA (JTA) - Documented'
charges by an Israeli diplomat of
Soviet mistreatment of Russian
Jewry, presented at the current
meeting of the United Nations
Economic and Social Council here,
provoked an angry reply by the
Soviet representative at the Coun-
cil who asserted that Jews in the
Soviet Union were on an equal
footing with all other Soviet citi-
zens.
A. Bendryshev. the Soviet rep-
resentative, took the floor several
times during the presentation by
Moshe Bartur, Israel's permanent
delegate at Geneva. Delegates
from several western countries, in-
cluding the United States, also
joined in the discussion, express-
ing their surprise that the condi-
tions described by Bartur still ex-
isted 15 years after the proclama-
tion of the Universal Declaration
on Human Rights.
The Soviet delegate's first inter-
vention came when Bartur began
quoting from anti-Semitic books
recently published in the Soviet
Union. The Soviet delegate inter-
rupted on a point of order, con-
tending that the speaker was re-
quired to adhere to the item un-
der discussion-the report of the
Human Rights Commission.
Sir Ronald Walker of Australia,
ECOSOC president, gave the floor
to the Israeli delegate who re-
frained from further quotations
and concluded his statement with
an urgent appeal to ECOSOC to
take constructive and urgent ac-
tion to remedy "an insufferable
situation" which he said was in
contradiction to the principles of
human rights.
The Soviet delegate then arose
again to make a violent statement
in which he insisted that Jews
were treated like all other Soviet
citizens. He also declared there
were now in Russia 97 synagogues
and that all Jews who had left Rus-
sia for Israel now wished to re-
turn while Israelis visiting Russia
would like to remain.
The delegates of France, Bri-
tain, the United States, Argentina,
Luxembourg and Ecuador then
spoke in criticism of the Soviet
Union for its continued anti-Jew-
ish activities.
The Soviet delegate again took
the floor and asserted that "Juda-
ism Without Embellishment," the
virulently anti-Semitic book pub-
lished under the auspices of the
Ukrainian Academy of Science-
to which Bartur had referred in
his statement - had been with-
drawn from circulation. The So-
viet delegate declared that there
did not now exist nor would there
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viet Russia.
• The Israeli representative took
the floor again at the end of the
session to reply. He said that he
regretted that he was morally
bound to bring such facts to the
meeting but that there was no
point in hiding "these facts of
life," especially where human
beings and human rights were con-
cerned.
He asserted that anti-Semitism
existed in other countries besides
Russia, but that nowhere else were
such anti-Semitic publications as
those he had cited issued under
auspices of governments or of
state publishing houses or of na-
tional academies.
Bartur added that he would not
discuss the Soviet delegate's as-
sertion that there were presently
97 synagogues in the Soviet Un-
ion. However, he said, he wanted
to remind ECOSO-C that a 1956
report of the United Nations had
stated that there were 450 syna-
gogues then in the Soviet Union
and that, judging from the Soviet
delegate's statement, one had to
deduce that some 350 synagogues
had been since shut down.
The Israeli envoy said that in
Russia, a community of about 3,-
000,000 Jews was being dispos-
sessed of its religious, cultural and
linguistic heritage, that opportu-
nity and facilities for Jewish edu-
cation were being denied and that
ties and communication with Jew-
ish communities in Israel and else-
where were being prevented.
He made it clear that while it
was true that there was no persec-
ution of Soviet Jewry physically,
he wanted to pose the question
as to whether "the campaign of
artificial assimilation enforced by
the strong apparatus of a power-
ful state was not almost as grave
a phenomenon." He then dealt
with arguments that criticism
against the Soviet Union auto-
matically stemmed from senti-
ments of hostility against a parti-
cular ideology. He stressed the
fact that Communist sources and
publications, certainly not suspect
of an anti-Soviet bias, were be-
coming increasingly aware of the
problem of anti-Semitism in Rus-
sia and voicing strong criticism of
it.
He also noted that while the
virulently anti-Semitic b o o k,
"Judaism Without Embellish-
ment," published by the Academy
of Science of "a certain Republic,"
was allegedly withdrawn after
worldwide protests, two similar
books were published and distri-
buted recently by the State Pub-
lishing House for Political Litera-
ture in Moscow.
Commenting on these "mons-
trous examples" of anti-Semitic
propaganda, from which he quoted
a number of pages, Ambassador
Bartur said that "if public opinion
is thus guided by state publish-
ing houses and academies of sci-
ence, there is indeed every reason
for urgent alarm."
He concluded by stressing the
"acute human problem" of reun-
ion of war-separated Jewish fam-
ilies and made a strong appeal to
the "national authorities most di-
rectly concerned" as well as to
the international community to
"take constructive and urgent ac-
tion to remedy an insufferable sit-
uation for millions of people grave-
ly affected in their basic human,
religious and cultural rights." He
added that "the situation is, we
are convinced, flagrantly incom-
patible with the spirit of our time
and with the convictions and de-
sires of the family of nations."
Another Jewish spokesman, Dr.
Maurice L. Perlzweig of the World
Jewish Congress, told the meeting
that his organization "views with
anxious disquiet the failure of
the United Nations so far to com-
plete even the draft of a text of a
declaration on the eradication of
religious intolerance."
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dut Avoda and Moshe Kol who
called for greater simplicity in life
TEL AVIV-President Zalman and more spirit and devotion to
Shazar, Prime Minister Levi Esh- ideals according to the example
kol and veteran labor leaders of set by Katznelson.
all parties were among the 5,000
persons who attended ceremonies
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Senate Committee to Start
Hearings on Soviet Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) - T h e
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee will open hearings Aug. 10 on
Senate resolution 204, cosponsored
by 63 senators, providing for a
condemnation of Soviet anti-Semit-
ism. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, Con-
necticut Democrat, original spon-
sor of the measure, will testify
before the committee.
Adoption of the resolution is
supported by the American Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, repre-
senting 24 organizations and the
major portion of American Jewry.
If the resolution is approved by
the committee, it will go to the
full Senate for final action.
Senator Ribicoff will also testify
before the platform Committee of
the forthcoming Democratic Na-
tional Convention in support of a
strong plank against Soviet anti-
Semitism. The hearings will be
held in Washington prior to the
convention, which will be held this
month.
Jewish Congress Pickets Declared
`Not Guilty'; Authorities Rebuked
NEW YORK (JTA) - Twelve
American Jewish Congress offi-
cials who picketed the Jordanian
Pavilion at the World's Fair on
May 25 were found not guilty of
disorderly conduct charges by
Judge Bernard Dubin in Queens
County Criminal Court.
In his ruling, Judge Dubin held
that the World's Fair was "quasi-
public property" and was therefore
not exempted from the require-
ments of the First and Fourteenth
Amendments to the U.S. Constitu-
tion, which guarantee free speech.
Howard M. Squadron, a Con-
gress vice-president, said: "Many
of the officers of the American
Jewish Congress are currently
abroad attending meetings of in-
ternational Jewish organizations.
On their return in the early fall,
we will meet to consider what fur-
ther steps our organization will
take-including the possibility of
further picketing-to express our
objections to the malicious and in-
sulting mural at the Jordanian
Pavilion."
"It is within the power of Rob-
ert Moses, World's Fair president,
to see to it that this mural is
removed. Now that the court has
spoken and the right to protest the
Jordanian libel has been upheld,
we hope that Mr. -Moses will exer-
Israel's Leaders Pay Homage to Katznelson
cise his power to remove this
blight from a fair that seeks to
promote the theme 'Peace Through
Understanding.' "
In his ten-page decision, Judge
Dubin rebuked Fair authorities
for their failure to remove the
mural. "It is my opinion that the
World's Fair authorities might
have made some effort, whether
legally bound or not, to have the
offensive mural removed. They
objected to one defendant ex-
hibiting an innocuous placard,
yet a mural is allowed to remain
which many people feel creates
hatred and bigotry against a
foreign nation and a race and
people. The reasoning seems to
be inconsistent."
Judge Dubin also cited "the
background and participation in
community services" of the 12
leaders, which he said made it
"evident that none of them had an
intent to provoke a breach of the
peace." He noted there was "no use
of offensive, disorderly, threaten-
ing, abusive or insulting language
on the part of any of the defend-
ants. There was no proof that their
actions annoyed, disturbed or in-
terefrd with or obstructd or was
offensive to any passerby."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 7, 1964
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