Adherence to Civil Rights Cause, Strong
Support for LBJ's Middle East Program
Voted Here by Bnai Brith District Parley
If the problem of the American
In a series of resolutions dealing
with major national and world Negro is to be met successfully, he
said,
"we must open the doors of
problems, Bnai Brith District 6, at
its convention in the Sheraton- economic opportunity to him, so
Cadillac Hotel, voted to endorse
President Johnson's five - point
peace program for the Middle East
and urged American Jews not to
turn their hacks on the civil rights
movement because of isolated anti-
Semitic positions taken by indi-
vidual Negroes.
Benjamin R. Epstein, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, told the
convention that while some anti-
Jewish sentiment does exist among
Negroes. "basically Negro anti-
Semitism is anti-white sentiment
which has been fanned within the
ghetto."
Epstein attributed the Negro
anti-Semitism which does exist to
the fact that the white person often
seen most frequently in large ur-
ban Negro areas—the merchant,
landlord or salesman — is Jewish.
"But Negroes - recognize that
Jews as a group are less anti-
Negro than other segments of the
dominant white population," Ep-
stein said.
He cited Anti-Defamation League
studies which he said show "that
Negroes regard Jews higher than
other whites, that they would
rather do business with Jews, and
that they deeply appreciate the
fact that Jews and Jewish organi-
zations are in their corner."
Responsible Negro leadership
will have nothing to do with anti-
Semitism. Epstein said. He said
many Negroes -- including even
some Black Nationalists — "have
urged Negroes to emulate Jews as
a worthy example."
Calling the white blacklash "a
tragedy to which we must not
contribute" Epstein urged sup-
port for the poverty program.
So Great
You'll Say
deshmakstel
that when the standard of living of
our nation rises, the benefits will
reach the under-privileged Negro."
"Turning to the problem of the
radical right, Epstein said its
practice of seeing a Communist
conspiracy in every forward-look-
ing movement is comparable to
the tactics employed in Nazi
Germany in the 1930s.
"Adolf Hitler first used the Com-
munist bugaboo as the source of
all evil, and he found no trouble in
equating Communist and Jew,"
Epstein said. "The propaganda
line" of radical right-wing groups
"is the same and holds the same
potential danger. Our Jewish radar
is sensitive to the ultimate result
of such propaganda—fascism."
The Bnai Brith Midwestern dis-
trict endorsed President Johnson's
five-point peace program for the
Middle East and urged the United
States and Canada to guarantee the
welfare and safety of both Arab
and Israeli prisoners of war.
Delegates resolved to support the
President's plan calling for the
right of every Middle Eastern na-
tion to live in peace, justice for
refugees, respect for national mari-
time rights, the prevention of a
renewed arms race and respect for
the political independence and ter-
ritorial integrity of all nations.
In a related action, Bnai Brith
District 6 deplored "the vicious,
unscrupulous and politically ex-
plosive propaganda warfare
practiced by the Soviet Union
against the State of Israel."
The district called upon the
Soviet Union to permit Russian
Jewry to create central religious
institutions and to allow unrestrict-
er worship and religious instruc-
tion.
It urged the USSR to let its Jew-
ish citizens make religious pil-
grimages to the Holy Land and es-
tablish formal religious and cul-
tural ties with the Jewish commun'-
ities in other countries.
Other convention resolutions
called for U.S. Senate ratification
of the Genocide Convention; sup-
ported integrated quality educa-
tion, equal job opportunities and
open occupancy in the sale or ren-
tal of housing; urged continuation
of the program of the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith in ex-
posing the "undemocratic forces"
of the Radical Right.
Ambassador Philip M. Klutz-
nick Sunday night defended the
United Nations against criticism
of its effectiveness in handling
the Middle East crisis. He said
that the cease-fire, "which saved
untold numbers of lives on both
sides," could not have been at-
tained without the presence of
the UN.
Klutznick, a former international
president of Bnai Brith and a mem-
ber of the United States with the
late Adlai Stevenson, said the
"greatest tragedy" which could be-
fall the free world is the "interna-
tional chaos which would result if
we begin to sell short the concept
of the United Nations and interna-
tional cooperation."
"If we are not happy with what
is taking place in the world today,"
Mr. Klutznick said, "it is not be-
cause there exists sufficient co-
operation; it is because there is
not enough cooperation."
Mr. Klutznick also stated that in
his judgment Soviet Premier Kosy-
gin did not come to the United
States "to deliver a speech that
Russian U.N. Ambassador Fred-
erenko could have made but be-
cause he hoped to meet with Presi-
dent Johnson."
Klutznick presented the Bnai
District 6 Humanitarian Award to
Paul Martin, secretary of state for
external affairs of Canada. Her-
bert Gray, a Canadian MP, ac-
cepted for Martin, who was busy
with the Middle East crisis at he
UN.
At the opening luncheon session
of the convention Sunday after-
noon, Isadore Feinglass of Chicago,
president of Bnai Brith District 6,
called on the American Jewish
community to stand firm in its de-
mand that the United States "keep
faith with its oft expressed guar-
antees for sovereignty and integ-
rity of Israel."
In his address at the closing
of the convention, at the dinner
meeting on Wednesday night,
Maurice A. Weinstein of Char-
lotte, N.C., chairman of the Bnai
Brith international council,
charged that the Vatican had
been silent for 19 years when
Jews were denied access to the
Wailing Wall, and he declared
this was an inappropriate time
to hear pleas for the interna-
tionalization of the Holy City.
He called attention to Israel's
having acted already to assure total
freedom of religion in Jerusalem
and to guarantee the rights of all
faiths.
A Bnai Brith youth fellowship
was established at the closing ses-
sion in the name of Feinglass.
Paul 0. Liebert of Grand Rapids
was installed as president of the
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Canadian Gets Humanitarian Award
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, June 30, 1967
Israeli Dances and Songs Open Freedom Festival
Dancers Guild of the Jewish Cen-
ter, under the direction of Mrs.
Harriet Berg, gave Israeli dance
interpretations.
Featured among the 30 nation-
ality groups who performed at
Ford Auditorium the opening day
of the International Freedom Fes-
tival (running through July 4),
were two groups sponsored by the
community and civic affairs come
mitte of the Metropolitan Detroit
Bnai Brith Council.
Marian
Kaplan,
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