24—Friday, July 28, 1967 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jewish Communists Follow Anti-Israel Line, Council forJesths issos Position While Polish UN Correspondent Rejects Bias A Polish Jewish group and an dations and has not declared itself account about a Polish United Na- Prores is Devastating Point East Berlin Jewish element joined against Israel. although Chief tions correspondent, W i e s 1 a w NEW YORK — That American Jewry is almost 100 per cent be- hind the present position of the State of Israel in the Middle Ea.it controversy was unwittingly proved by the American Council for Juda- ism, according to a statement by Rabbi Israel Miller, of New York. chairman of the American Zionist Council, coordinating body for the entire Zionist movement. "In the Sunday Times of July the American Council for Judaism the Communists in the anti-Israel Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin joined i Gornicki, who refused to swallow is not only irresponsible but moral- campaign. Both groups made state- those charging Israel with aggres- j anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propa- Banda, appeared to the Paris ly bankrupt with their outworn ments condemning Israel as an sion. attempts to frighten American aggressor. 1 But while the Polish Jewish Corn- Herald Tribune on July 15: Jewry by raising the bogey _of dual Russian Jewry from all indica- munists joined in an anti-Israel "A Polish newsman has been l oyalties." ies. tions still refused to yield to intimi- i campaign, the following important reprimanded by C o m munist • De Gaulle's Stand Rejected by Liberal Frenchmen By GABRIEL LEVENSON (Copyright 1%7. JTA Inc.) PARIS — French President ■ 16." Rabbi Miller said. "the Amer- Charles de Gaulle continues the ican Council for Judaism chal- embargo on arms replacements for lenged the point of view that Amer- Israel, but France's 500,000 Jews ican Jewry almost unanimously sup- will not falter in their "uncondi- ports Israel's posture in the present ticinal'• support for the Jewish Middle East controversy. Speaking State. no matter what position the for the Council for Judaism, Rabbi government takes. Elmer Berger. its executive vice This is the opinion of Pierre president, intimated that many Jews are opposed to Israel's 'ag. Kauffmann. permanent secretary- general of the Committee of Co. ' gression' in the Middle East. Then. ordination of the Jewish Organi- after giving the Times reporter the names of six distinguished members of the Council for Juda- ism. Rabbi Berger said 'obviously men like these are not wild radi- cals, not the sort of people who associate themselves with irrespon- sible organizat ions.' "There is no doubt," Rabbi Miller said, "that the six mem- bers whose names were given by Elmer Berger as supporters for the Council for Judaism's posi- tion are not irresponsible. With five of the six disavowing Rabbi Berger's use of their names as sponsors of the Council for Juda- ' ism's position, as reported in the New York Times of July 19, it is the Council for Judaism that stands revealed as being irre- sponsible, "The disavowals published in the Times." Rabbi Miller concluded, "indicate what the great majority of Jews have long known: that Australian Jews Ask Kosvgin to Halt Attacks' MELBOURNE (JTA)—The Exe- cutive Council of Australian Jewry has appealed to Soviet Premier Alexci Kosygin to halt the con- tinuing charges by the Soviet Union that Israeli armed forces were guilty of "Hitlerite atro- cities." The council noted that the Soviet Union "has never published a word of criticism about the Nazi war criminals actively mobilized in Cairo and Damascus in the war against the Jews." It added that "the Soviet government has given unstinting support to the Arab states disseminating the crude anti-Semitism of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion." The Jewish representative body pointed out that this was not the first time in this century that a major power had accused the Jews of subhuman crimes and said that "the world knows the terrible price the Jewish people have paid for such monstrous accusations." 6eiteral Criarles Israel stand. "But de Gaulle doesn't pay attention to :Lis cabinet in any case." he added. The traditionally anti-Semitic far right was "100 percent for Israel," Kauffmann said. As "diehard" colonialists, he said, the far right "automatically" applauded any set back to the Arabs and cheered Israeli military victories over them but their profound anti-Jewish feel- ings persist. "The new slogan of the right," Kauffmann said, "is 'Long Live Israel — Down With the Jews!' " Kauffmann warned, however, that Israeli victories were creat- ing a "reversal of images" in public opinion. "Israel is now the Goliath, and the defeated Arabs now David," he said. T h e government - controlled radio and television stations, with an emphasis on the problems of the Arab refugees, were "effect- ing a certain shift" in popular support for Israel," Kauffmann said. The Roman Catholic Church in Pe Gaulle France has taken no official posi- tion on the Arab-Israeli war, Kauff- zations of France. a group newly mann said, although several lead- formed to mobilize aid for Israel. Kauffmann 'said the response of French Jewry to the committee's appeals for funds was "extraordin- ary" and "surprising." The 170 affiliated organizations r a i s e d $10,000,000 for Israel in the month of June — as compared with an- nual totals of $3,00,000 for both Israel and French community needs in previous years. The Middle East crisis has given the "essentially secular" French Jewish community a self- awareness it has not had since the Dreyfus affair, he said. "To be a Jew in France is a uniquely individual choice," Kauffmann added. "There have been no social or religious pressures since Dreyfus to heighten a sense of identity." Kauffmann, himself a member of of the French Jewish underground during World War II, said that the "knowledge of Auschwitz" on the one hand, and the massive immi- gration to France of North African Jews in the past decade, on the other, had "roused somewhat" a "hitherto dormant" Jewishness. But it was only Arab threats to Israel's survival that created a feeling of unity and identy among French Jews "for the first time." Kauffmann described as "scan- dalous" letters written by several Jews to Le Monde, leading Paris newspaper, which deplored Jewish aid to Israel as "un-French." He Connecticut Bars Primary said such views were held by a "tiny minority" of French Jewry. on Religious Holidays He said there was no anti-Zionist HARTFORD, CONN. (JTA)—A organization, comparable to the bill barring the holding of primary American Council for Judaism, in election in Connecticut on any day France. He said the "David and that is a religious holiday has been Goliath" situation in the Middle signed by Gov. Dempsey and was East — tiny Israel against the enacted into law. The bill was enormous Arab world — had had introduced in the State General a strong appeal to the majority Assembly after observant Jews of French non-Jews. with support were unable to participate in the ranging from the far left to the far primaries last year because they right. coincided with Sukkot. Only the Communist Party of The new legislation follows en- all major political groups, took actment of a constitutional amend- an anti-Israel stand, he said; but ment in 1965 giving Connecticut he said that the party member- voters the right to cast absentee ship was "totally split" on the ballots when a regular election question. L'Hurnanite, the Com- falls on a religious holiday. munist daily newspaper, has Gov. Dempsey pointed out that taken whole pages in several the new law provides that "no issues, defending its policy to primary elections shall be held its readers, Kauffmann said, on any day when secular activity The Gaullist movement was sim- is forbidden under the tenets of ilarly divided, he said. even among any religion." He said that "this its parliamentary deputies. He said legislation is needed to assure full it was "probably tree." as re- and complete compliance with the ported in the press, that only three constitutional guarantee of free- of the 28 members of de Gaulle's dom of worship." cabinet supported him in his anti- ing orders within the church have indicated strong pro-Israel sym- pathies. Discussion on the crisis continue "on the highest Church levels." Kauffmann said. The Committee of Coordination was organized May 27 with Baron Guy de Rothschild. director of Rothschild Freres, as its president. Other officers include Claude Kel- man, president of the Conference of European Jews; Victor Bene- viste, president of the Federation of Zionists: and Theodore Klein, president of the Jewish Community Centers of France. The Committee plans to set up a joint fund-raising campaign for the first time, for both Israel and French Jewish community needs," Kauffmann said. The committee has also spon- sored a volunteers for Israel pro- ' gram. Five thousand applications were processed, but Israel could accept only 750 of them, he said. Hundreds of Jewish and non-Jew- ish doctors have signed up for medical service in Israel, and 10,000 persons offered blood do- ' nations, but they were not needed, Kauffmann said. Party chief Wladyslaw Goumulka and summoned home because of his refusal to follow the govern- ment line in the Middle East cri- sis, it has been learned from non- Polish sources. "The reporter is Wieslaw Gor- nicki, UN representative of the Polish press agency and the War- saw paper Zycie Warszawy, and a vice-president of the UN Cor- respondents' Association. His writings recently won a journalis- tic prize in Poland. Mr. Gornicki is said by the sources here to have suspended his weekly column in "Zycie Warszaway" rather than conform to the gov- ernment's explanation of the Mid- dle East crisis, He declined re- quests of his editor that he re- sume writing. When Premier Jozef Cyran- kiewicz and Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki were at the UN last month for the emergency special session of the General As- sembly, they reportedly pleaded with Mr. Gornicki but he again refused." In a New Jersey factory owned by a Pole, 600 Polish workers (all non-Jews except for three), the manager called a meeting and the Poles collected $19,000 for Israel. ------- • • • : : t s ; .. I I • b'd:: hNe lrouc neNt water he8ier to be electric. W 91 installation costs. 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