THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, March 1, 1968
WJCongress Denies Call for Boycott
of Ghetto Uprising Commemoration ADL Denounces Anti-Semitic Memorial
LONDON (JTA) — The British which were widely published here for Late Malcolm X at Harlem School
and abroad, stemmed, according to
Section of the World Jewish Con-
gress categorically denied Tuesday
that it had ever called for a boycott
by Jews of the forthcoming com-
memoration of the 25th anni-
versary of the Warsaw Ghetto re-
volt which the Polish government
will sponsor in Warsaw this spring.
Alex L. Easterman, director of
the Congress' international affairs
department, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that reports of a
boycott call issued by the WJC
were "ill founded" and "er-
roneous." He said that "on no
occasion has the Congress taken
any such decision or made any
such pronouncements."
The reports of a boycott call,
Easterman, from words incorpor-
ated in a general resolution adopt-
ed at the recent national confer-
ence of the WJC's British section
here.
The resolution expressed the
WJC's "disquiet and regrets" over
Poland's attitude toward Israel
since last June's Arab-Israel war
but stated its hopes for the res-
toration of good will and confidence
between the Jewish world and the
Polish Republic.
Easterman noted that constituent
members of the WJC are free to
express independent opinions but,
unless , adopted by the parent body,
these are not binding.
tn, Little Fellow
Silverman —Bit.-
Let him believe your cause is
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
right and he would speak. The
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Sometimes the only way to whop members of Parliament might
a big fellow is by a little fellow. groan and hiss. It didn't matter.
It's the old David and Goliath story. It was said of Wendell Phillips,
Suppose David had been a giant the American abolitionist, that he
like Goliath. The two would have was at his best when the audience
had the same approach. No- giant stormed. That might have been said
would have thought of picking up of Silverman.
some pebbles and shooting them at
He began the fight against
his opponent. but David as a little
capital punishment 20 years ago.
fellow saw its possibilities. He had
Maybe he knew that in the Tal-
his eperience in dealing with peo-
mud, Rabbi Akiva said that if
ple who were bigger.
he were a judge, he would always
Sydney Silverman, the Labor
find a way not to impose a death
member of the British House of
sentence.
Commons, was such a little fellow.
Silverman was also against war,
He stood no more than five feet which is also a form of capital
in height, but there was no mem- punishment for being young. He
ber of the Commons he was afraid voted against German rearmament.
to take on. Jews perhaps remem- He attacked Prince Phillip, when
ber most the way he dealt with the some years back, the Prince, he
bellowing heavyweight, Ernest thought, was saying too syrupy
Bevin. the Labor party leader and things about the Germans, who, he
anti-Zionist at the end of World felt, had a great deal to answer for.
War H.
Time after time, he refused to go
More recently Silverman's
along with his party. As before
name was in the press when
said,
the most conspicuous instance
England passed the bill abolish.
was when Bevin, the British Labor
ing capital punishment. The 300
party leader and foreign minister,
members of the House of Com-
mons crowded around him to sealed tight the gates of Palestine
to the inmates of the concentration
congratulate him. They knew he
camps. Just when every human in-
was responsible for the outlawing
stinct dictated some compassion for
of hanging in England. Sydney
those unfortunates, the leader sup-
Silverman was popular for a
posedly representing idealistic
change.
labor revealed a Nazi visage.
Most of the time Silverman was
Bevin once facetiously told a
not popular. Thomas Paine once
said "the minority is always right." new member of Parliament who
asked
how he should vote, "Just
It takes time for the majority to
watch Silverman and vote con-
catch up with the thinking minor-
trary
to
his way." Bevin knew
ity. It didn't matter to Silverman
how independent Silverman was.
what others might think. If the
Silverman was thrown out of the
minority of one—himself—thought
party several times but was al-
a thing right, then he would stand
ways taken back again.
up for it.
A member of Parliament is
So he always championed causes
for which few would speak. Some quoted in the press as saying of
Englishman said, "If your party his death, "A little man and a big
has turned you down, if your man — joined together — have
friends won't have anything to do left us."
with you, and even your wife de-
Silverman was getting too popu-
serts you, don't give up hope, see lar. This was something very new
Sydney Silverman."
in his experience.
slstant chief inspector of the City
Police Department for allowing
himself "to be barred" from the
memorial meeting.
The ADL official added he was i
confident that the "kill whitey" 11„,
theme and the "anti-Semitism of
the program reflect the views of a
minuscule segment of the Negro *
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community."
NEW YORK (JTA) — An Anti-
Defamation League official has
accused New York City school and
police officials, and the Ford Foun-
dation, of "abdicating their re-
sponsibilities" in allowing an "in-
decent 'kill whitey' and anti-Semi-
tic performance" at a memorial
meeting for slain militant Malcolm!
X at a public school in Harlem last
Wednesday.
The charge was made by David
A. Schulte , chairman of the New.
York board of the ADL. He re-
ferred to a performance at Inter- ,
mediate School 201 where the City
Board of Education is conducting
an experiment, with Ford Founda-
tion help, in decentralizing public
school administration.
The ADL official said that "what
may be a valuable educational ex-
periment" was being subverted by
"those with authority giving tacit
consent" to anarchy.
He declared it was "shocking"
that the Superintendent of Schools,
with his "previous knowledge of
the racist and anti-Semitic fulmina-
tions of Leroi Jones, the African-
American Teachers Association
and Herman B. Ferguson, who is
under indictment on a charge of
conspiring to murder moderate
Negro leaders, permitted use of
the school building during school
hours for spewing forth such
venom." He also denounced an as
fi
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Bank is costing Israeli taxpayers Israel's taxpayers were the salaries
100.000,000 pounds ($28,500,000) paid to municipal employes and
a year, Defense Minister Moshe teachers on the West Bank.
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ing a visit to the West Bank of cently provided 2,000 blankets for
Jenin.
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He said that Israel would be kilograms of flour per person in
willing to turn over local govern- the Jenin region. The funds were
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the Arabs provided they were will- social welfare.
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settlements in the Jordan Valley
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