Kosygin Says Nyet to British Premier on Possibility of J ewish Emigration;
Thousands of Jews Are Reported Still Being Persecuted in Arab Countries
LONDON (JTA)—Prime Minis- ing each individual case with the Congress declared here last
ter Harold Wilson indicated he had Soviet minister of foreign affairs." weekend that thousands of Jews
taken up with Premier Kosygin
in Arab countries continue to suf-
(A Ukrainian author whose
and other Soviet leaders, during viciously anti-Semitic book, Juda-
fer imprisonment, persecution
his visit to Moscow last month, the ism Without Embellishment,
and maltreatment in the after-
question of emigration of Russian caused such an international up-
math of last June's Arab-Israel
Jews to Israel and that he had re- roar that his book was denounced
war and that many of the Arab
ceived a negative response.
governments have rejected at-
in the Soviet press several years
The prime minister disclosed ago, is one of several public lec-
tempts by the International Red
this phase of his Soviet talks in a turers honored in a recent action
Cross to intervene on their be-
letter to Sir Barnett Janner, a by the Supreme Soviet of the
half.
member of parliament and for- Ukrainian Soviet Republic, it was
Dr. Solomon Gaon, vice presi-
mer chairman of the Board of reported here.
dent of the WJC's British section,
Deputies of British Jews.
(Pravda Ukrainy, the official made the charges in an address at
Wilson wrote to Sir Barnett in organ of the Ukrainian Communist the opening of the organization's
response to a letter from the Party, listed in its Jan. 20 issue a 15th biennial conference. Hundreds
Jewish leader. Sir Barnett re- decree of the Supreme Soviet, be- of Jews, he said, were still de-
called in his letter that "a num- stowing the honors on behalf of the tained in Egyptian prisons where
ber of families" had been re- Znanie Society, the society for the they are subject to mistreatment
united in Israel "through your spreading of atheism. Trofim K. and even torture.
interventions in past years." He Kychko, who was temporarily in
Considerable Jewish property
asked the prime minister about disgrace after his book was de- has been confiscated by the Egyp-
"the outcome of any approaches nounced not only by non-Commu- tian government, and many Jews
you were able to make this nist critics but also by Western have been dismissed from their
time."
Communist parties, received a jobs, Dr. Gaon said. Some Jews
The prime minister said, in his "diploma of the Presidium of the have been expelled from Egypt but
were forced to leave their families
reply, that he had raised with the Supreme Soviet."
Soviet premier and other Soviet
(Kychko emerged from obscurity behind.
leaders "the points you made" after the June war with a Nazi-like
In Syria, Dr. Gaon said, the gov-
about the treatment of the Jews in article about Israel and Zionism. ernment has not only banned Jew-
the Soviet Union, the provision of The accolade was viewed here as ish emigration but has forbidden
kosher meat and matzo and print- in effect restoring him to official Jews to leave the Damascus city
ing facilities for Jewish books "but favor.)
limits. The Red Cross has been for-
there was no change in the Soviet
A leader of the World Jewish I bidden to investigate. Syria has a
position."
The prime minister recalled that THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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he had informed Sir Barnett, prior
to his latest visit to Moscow, that I
the restrictions on emigration from
the Soviet Union to Israel "would
be a difficult subject to press in
the present tense situation in the
Middle East" and that "it became
clear from my discussion with the
Soviet leaders that the fears I ex-
pressed to you were justified and
that there will be little hope of re-
consideration at this time of this
question."
The prime minister added that,
as before, reunion of families in in-
dividual cases was taken up during
his Moscow visit and that "I ar-
ranged that this matter would
continue to be dealt with through
normal diplomatic channels, i.e.,
through our ambassador discuss-
Jewish population of 3,600.
In Iraq, where there are still
3,000 Jews, many were arrested
after the June war, about 39 fami-
lies have been detained, and the
government has banned emigra-
tion while refusing to allow the
Red Cross to interview Jews. In
all of the Arab countries, Dr. Gaon
said, the press and radio continue
to wage campaigns of incitement
against the Jews.
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Rights Commission, which will be-
gin a five-week session on March
5, will consider measures for
Speedy implementation of the
United Nations declaration on
elimination of all forms of racial
discrimination, according to the
27-point agenda made public here.
The commission will consider pro-
posals for dealing with Nazism and
racial intolerance made by its
Subcommission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities.
The Ukrainian representative on
the commission, Petre E. Nedbailo,
this year's chairman, was expected
to make a major issue out of the
agenda item on measures against
Nazism and racial intolerance and
to direct a sharp attack against
West Germany because of the re-
cent spectacular electoral suc-
cesses of the neo-Nazi National
Democratic Party. In a memoran-
dum prior to the commission meet-
ing, the Ukrainian delegate warn-
ed of the need for "new effective
measures" for the eradication of
Nazism and militarism, and for
new measures "to avert the neo-
Nazi danger."
The commission will consider
Plans for observance of the year
1988 as International Year for
Human Rights as proclaimed by
the General Assembly. The as-
sembly decided that this year
should be devoted to intensive na-
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ensure human rights and to mark
ogress made thus far in their
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