Anti-Semitic Attacks on Zionism Published by Folkshtimme

LONDON (JTA)—Pressure from
official quarters has forced Pol-
and's only Yiddish daily newspap-
er, the Folkshtimme, to publish a
Communist Party leader's attack
on "international Zionism" as one
of the agencies responsible for stu-
dent rioting and unrest that has
shaken Poland for the past week.
The Yiddish paper, organ of the
Polish Jewish Cultural Society,
had, until last Saturday, scrupu-
lously deleted all references to
Jews and Zionists in speeches

condemning the student riots which
it otherwise published in full. Folk-
shtimme did not report either the
mass arrests of students in recent
days although a disproportionate
number of them were Jews, in-
cluding Alexander Smolar, son of
Hirsch Smolar, the paper's editor.
On Saturday, Folkshtimme pub-
lished the full text of a speech de-
livered at Katowicz, capital of Si-
lesia, by Edward Gierek, Polit-
buro member and party leader for
Silesia, whom castigated "interna-
tional Zionists" along with "im-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS perialists" and "revisionists" as
enemies of Poland. The report of
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the speech was supplied by the
official Polish Press Agency
(PAP).
It is believed that Folksh-
FOR A
timme deliberately remained si-
lent on the officially inspired
campaign against "Zionists" and,
by implication, all Polish Jews,
in order to avoid taking a posi-
tion which might offend the
Commitment To Their
Communist Party leadership and
could result in the paper's shut-
down. The paper's editor was one
of a number of well-known Jews,
including high government offi-
cials, who were chastised by the
party because their children al-
legedly participated in the stu-
dent riots.
(Freiheit, the New York Yiddish-
language Communist daily, edito-
rially criticized the Polish regime
for its "senseless" attempt to place
blame for student unrest and riot-
ing on the tiny Polish Jewish com-
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munity. It said the attempt was
"dangerous" for Poland and
TO THE
warned the regime it was playing
into the hands of reactionary anti-
Semites. The editorial asserted
that the Polish government had
conducted a campaign against
anti-Semitism and said that in the
light of this past activity, certain
features of the present situation
were "tragic, inexplicable and
dangerous." The Worker, the Eng-
lish-language Communist publica-
tion here, completely ignored the
Polish Situation in its current is-
sue.)
Victor Zorza, the Guardian's
Warsaw correspondent, reported
that the controlled press and radio
has changed its tactics somewhat
and instead of concentrating on
"Zionists" as the culprits, is at-
tacking so-called "bankrupt poli-
ticians" and "discredited Stalin-
ists," who happen to be Jews, for
inciting unrest. The change, he
said, is due to their failure to con-
vince the students that they were
being manipulated by "Zionists" or
that Poland's small surviving Jew-
ish community, between 18,000 and
2 0,000 in number, was a formid-
able enemy of the regime.
says
An example of the new turn was
a half-page attack in the official
Communist Party newspaper, Try-
SHELDON SALZMAN
buna Ludu, on Stefan Staszewski,
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a Jew who was the party secretary
at the time of the Gomulka take-
"I do," says Mr. Salzman
over in 1956. He was accused of
"because the teaching ap-
proach at Akiva gives my
seeking to use the unrest to return
children the finest moral,
to power. A similar accusation was
religious, and general ed-
ucation possible. Akiva
leveled against Roman Zambrow-
promotes a love for Tor-
ski. The Polish Press Agency
ah, Israel and for learn-
ing itself, and develops
reported that Zambrowski has been
in my children a high
dismissed from his post in the gov-
proficiency in reading,
writing and mathema-
ernment and the Communist Party.
tics".
on charges of instigating student
riots. Zambrowski is a veteran
Stalinist.
FALL ENROLLMENT
(The American Embassy in
Warsaw has sent reports to the
NOW OPEN
State Department confirming that
anti-Semitism had been used by
the Polish regime to discredit the
student unrest. The embassy is
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closely following the situation and
reporting to Washington, officials
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said.)
According to Richard Davy,
Times correspondent who was ex-
pelled from Poland on Saturday,
the student riots were seized upon
by Interior Minister Mieczyslaw
Moczar as a means of increasing

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his power at the expense of party
leader Wladyslaw Gomulka who
was out of town at the time. Davy,
writing from Prague, noted that
Gen. Moczar, who heads the pow-
erful Polish veterans' organization
and "has a reputation for being
anti-Semitic," had used anti-Zion-
ism and anti-Jewish accusations
to force Jews out of key positions
in the Communist Party appartus
and eased in his own men last year
at the time of the Six-Day War.
The Telegraph reported from
Warsaw however that Polish stu-
dents are convinced that the riots
were provoked by the Gomulka
regime to serve as the pretext
for "a thorough and sweeping
purge" of the Polish Communist
Party and government institutions.
Eshkol Denounces Polish
`Falsehoods,' Bids Polish
Jewry Migrate to Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Prime
Minister Eshkol said he was
shocked by the exploitation of anti-
Semitic feelings for internal politi-
cal purposes practiced by the rul-
ing Communist Party in Poland.
He called on the remaining Jews
in Poland to emigrate to Israel.
He also expressed hope that So-
viet Jewry would soon be granted
full cultural and religious freedom.

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including the Communists, Monday
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The Communist MK, S. Mikunis,
maintained that the Polish tactics
was evidence of "a shaky ideologi-
cal system" and said it was a se-
quel to Poland's one-sided support
of the Arabs in the Six-Day War.
Other speakers noted that the worst
crimes perpetrated by the Nazis
against the Jews were committed
on Polish soil while the Polish
population did nothing to prevent
them.

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