All Roads Lead to Jerusalem THE JEWISH NEWS hicorporatmg The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Member AMItneal3 Association of Emslish—Jewiab Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial •stiociation. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 77100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit, Mich. 48235 -'E 11-9344. Subscription $13 a year. Foreign $7. Second Class Postage Paid at Detroit, Michigan PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager CHARLOTTE DUBIN City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath. the 26th day of At- , 5727, the following scriptural selections will be 'read in our synagogues: Pentoteuelial portion: Deut. 7:12-11:25. Prophetical portion: Isaiah 49:14-51:3. Candle lighting. Friday. August VOL. LI. No. 23 Page Four 25.1 p.m. August 25, 1967 Union of Haters: SNCC Joins Kremlin, KKK Instead of a union of all liberal forces against bigotry. race hatred and the spread .51 untruths, we are witnessing a fusion of the elements of hatred and bitterness. Instead of search for means of unifying the American people into a single force striving for amity among all faiths, all races. citizens with a .-elird for law and order regardless of party affiliations, we are being treated to incitement to violence. to the infuriating methods of hate-mongers who state without reservations that they would just as soon burn this country down in order to attain power. And in the process of this un-American—anti-American! method of dealing with fellow-citizens we are being treated to another partnership: an unholy alliance of a so-called non-violent Negro element with the vilest of the world's ln•i-Semitic groups. I * * SNCC has been likened to the Ku Klux Klan. Its ideology now is akin to the revived ('zarist Russian practices that have been ,chipted by the scurrilous elements in the Soviez Union. We have before us a combina- tion of deluded bigots who stem from anti- Israel Arab lands. the USSR anti-Semites. the KKK and the medievalists who are reviv- 'lir the pernicious Protocols and such libels as ritual murder. and every conceivable (rime that has been laid at the doors of Jewry by those who sought to destroy us. SNCC emerges in a most puzzling light. At a time when Negro spokesmen must join forces in establishing unity based on what this group claims to be propagating—non- violence. which must be emphasized as oppo- sition to looting, to rioting, to arson, to destruction of life and property—the young :'Jctiro group is espousing the cause of hatred. of suspicion. of prejudice, by spreading false libels and by linking itself with the most anti-Semitic groups in the world. What SNCC is doing is adding fuel to flames that are being spread in many parts of the world. It is now the partner of the unholy alliance that includes Nasser and Fedorenko as well as the former Mufti of Jerusalem who advocated Israel's destruction. SNCC has given one of the severest blows to the civil rights movement. Instead of striv- ing to establish conditions that would prevent the emergence of backlash either among them or among whites. SNCC gives encour- .igment to despair. to lack of faith, to a loss of confidence in a full partnership between Negroes and whites. It is a minority that does not speak for the majority. The sane element in the Negro viks already has repudiated SNCC. The masses of the Negro people must let them- selves be heard in condemnation of the outrageous hate-mongering that stems from the Negro group's headquarters in Atlanta. * * , * What has happened in the SNCC quarters is symbolic of the hatreds that are in evidence in many other quarters. It is equivalent to the Cairo propaganda. It is like the Fedorenko- Knsygin venom expressed at the UN and in Glassboro, N.J. It is part of a scheme to revive the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the stupidest yet most harmful fabrications on record. The Protocols were the tools of Czar- ist Russia against Jewry. then they became the means of fostering hatred by Hitler, now they are again the joint instrument used against the Jewish people by the Kremlin, by Nasser, by haters in this country—and by their new partners, the SNCC! There is no doubt about the union of haters, even if it is not a conscious one. They are now in evidence everywhere. The eminent foreign correspondent of the Guardian of London. Terence Prittie, author of the widely acclaimed "Israel—Miracle in the Desert," in an extensive report on the harboring of Nazi criminals by Egypt and on Egypt's resort to the lies of the Protocols, points out the following: The work of the West German legal authorities in bringing Nazi war-criminals to justice is being made unnecessarily difficult by the refusal of some countries which have given them asylum to extradite them or, in some cases, even to answer notes sent by the West German govern- ment. The country with the blackest record in this respect is undoubtedly Egypt. West Germany has no extradition treaty with Egypt, but, where no treaty exists, it is always possible to secure extra- dition by requesting it formally and promising reciprocal action, if and when required. Egypt continues to harbor a large number of ex-Nazis, including some of the worst war crim- inals of Hitler's Reich (Leopold Gleim, Heinrich Willerman, Oscar Dirlewanger, Hans Eisele, F reidrich We sem ann ) . Egypt has given asylum to other known war criminals, but also to a great many ex-Nazis of a pernicious kind who are not yet facing formal charges (Louis Keiden, Franz Fuensche, Walter Bolmann, Alois Moser, Heinrich Sellmann). The presence of dozens of prominent ex-Nazis has almost certainly contributed to the increase of anti-Semitic literature in Egypt and other Arab countries. The Arab world was not traditionally interested in racialist theory but in recent years there has been a rash of publications accusing the Jews of ritual child-murder and the sucking of the blood of infants, propagating the mythical "plot against world civilization" of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and depicting Jews by means of caricatures culled from the pages of Julius Streicher's "Stuermer." It will be a useful byproduct of any peace agreement which can now be reached between Israel and her Arab neighbors if something can be done about the surviving Nazi war criminals. Extradition treaties could enable them to be shipped to Germany. Poland, the Soviet Union, and other countries where they could be brought to justice. When we take into account these facts, link them with the spread of venom in Russia and in SNCC ranks, compare the cartoons that were used by the SNCC newsletter with New Discoveries, Manuscripts Israel Year Book Describes Trade Relations, Exploration, Economy "Israel Year Book 1967" issued by the economic department of the Jewish Agency is packed full of basic facts about Israel that will serve as a guide for all who are interested in Israel's aspirations and development. Although it had already gone off the press before the June six-day war, all of the data incorporated here is applicable to Israel's status today. Israel's official family, economic experts, notables in civic life and in high academic roles, participate in the review of facts relating to Israel's activities. The hoped-for migration of Jews into Israel from Western countries remains a major hope, as indicated in the opening essay by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol who states that "our first and im- mediate aliya concern must be to find means of developing a substantial immigration from the Americas and from other coun- tries of the Western Hemisphere." He writes about "amenities that can be made available" — of offers to be made to prospective settlers "with a maximum of under- standing and a minimum of bureaucracy, in housing, mortgages, loans, licenses." t The obligations faced in handling Israel's economy are described by Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, who tells how tax dollars are spent for the advancement of health, education and other government func- tions. He shows that the trade deficit in 1965 was by $50,000,000 lower than in 1964. While many other articles, by Minister of Commerce and Industry H. J. Zadok, Governor David Horowitz of the Bank of Israel, A. L. Dulzin, head of the Jewish Agency economic department, and Dr. L. Berger discuss Israel's economy, the section "Guide to the New Im- migrant" is of special interest. One of the leading articles in this group, by Prof. Benjamin Akzin of the Hebrew University, describes the functions of the Knesset. Israel's legal system is outlined by Judge Henry E. Baker of the Jerusalem District Court. The Hebrew University's "commitment" is described by the those now circulated in Russia, we see a university's president, Dr. Eliahu Elath. The Weizznann Institute's common pattern, an identical line of think- functions are explained in a brief review. ing, a psychopathic attitude that may not be of Israeli excavations will find much to interest them easy to cure. There is a world sickness and in A. Students Negev's "Mystery Ruins of the Negev." there are too few physicians to cure it. And * the numerically small Jewish people and "The Israel Philharmonic's Recordings "are reviewed by Sarah little Israel once again must be on the alert— Wilkinson. A section is devoted to the Israel diamond industry, and not only against the hate-mongers in Cairo the section dealing with commercial relations includes articles by and in Damascus and in the Kremlin but also industrialists and authorities on Israel's economic development. Several scholarly essays deserve special attention. Zvi Singer's in Atlanta, Ga.! What a serious responsibility "The Wisdom of Ben Sira" briefly outlines the Ben Sira book of to be on guard against so many hatemongers/ Ecclesiasticus, a scroll of which was found in one of the easements And what a challenge this is to the indifferent of the Masada eastern wall on April 8, 1964. yonns Jewish liberals who are in all radical Singer states in his essay "that the manuscript that was discovered ranks but must now share with us the duty contained chapters 39, 27-43.30 and that Prof. Yigael Yadin dated of nreventinu calamity from those with whom sup had made common cause in behalf of civil rights! * * • What has happened in the current dis- graceful acts of the so-called non-violent Negro group is that it has incited to hatred that could lead to riot. That group, posing as a peace-aspirant, is acting out of sheer ignorance. It has fallen prey to the vilest lies that had emanated from Cairo, especially since 1956. This group has emulated the sadistic policies of the Russian press which has re- sorted to Streicher patterns in depicting Jews. There is no doubt that what SNCC did was not to pursue an anti-Israel policy but to adopt anti-Semitism as its platform. On them as of the first half of the century BCE. He adds: "On the strength of his comparative analysis of the texts of Masada and the Cairo 'Geniza', Prof. Yadin argues persuasively that in spite of many variants, the Masada scroll is basically identical with that of the `Geniza' manuscript. This means, of course, a confirmation of the view that the `Geniza' manuscripts are based on the original Hebrew version. Another conclusion reached by Yadin in his study of the scroll is that the text by Ben Sira's grandson for his Greek translation was very close to the Masada text. But his most exciting conclusion is that the Masada scroll is closest to, and perhaps identical with, the original text of Ben Sira . .." Another interesting discovery recorded in the 1967-68 Year Book is the ancient coin with the YHD inscription with a lily on the reverse side. Y. Meshorer describes its significance, traces it to the legend of the Persian name of Yehud in the Judaean satrapy in the fifth or fourth pre-Christian centuries. It explains the epigraphic similarity in the inscription of the lily to the owl. There also is a valuable article describing the Yemenite Jewish silversmiths. Nahum Oundak describes their expertise in this essay. Another section of the year book deals with the development of petroleum exploration. Several essays describe Israel's economic relations with Israel. One by W. M. Kerrigan, former first secretary of the U. S. Embassy all scores, it stands indicted as an inhuman element that poses as a justice-seeking civil in Tel Aviv, deals with "Israel's Trade With the U. S." rights advocate.