Dignity for Education, Educators An editorial appeal for unified efforts between teaching staffs and administrations . . to assure elevation of cultural standards in all our schools, adherence to our traditions and assur- ance of dignity and respectability for the Jewish teachers. (Editorial, Page 4) TIQi y_vvISH NE Gang-Up by Haters: Hijacking and Resort to Venom History-Making Literary Task: Uriel Weinreich's I by Arabs and MI the Communists A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 Yiddish-English C HIGAN Dictionary of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOL. LIII, No. 24 ‘ ' 4° 27 August 30, 1968-17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235 VE 8-9361 A Review on Page 40 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Anti-Semitic Resort to Anti-Zionism Injected in Czech Crisis; Israelis Join World Forces in Mass Protests Strong Democratic Plank Favors U. S. Arms Assistance to Israel CHICAGO — The Democratic National Platform Committee approved a Middle East plank urging the United States to assist Israel "with essential -military equipment needed for her defense, including the most advanced types of combat aircraft . . . As long as Israel is threatened by hostile and well- - armed neighbors." The plank was incorporated into the 1968 Democratic Platform which was adopted by the national convention Tuesday night. The convention also adopted a plank expressing "profound concern about the continued repression of Jews and other minorities in the Soviet Union and elsewhere." The Middle East plank referred to the region as a "powder keg" and declared that the U.S. must do all in its power to prevent the recurrence of war in the area. It • charged the Soviet Union with preferring "short- term political advantages to long-range stability and peace" in the Middle East as evidenced by the deployment of a large Soviet fleet in the Medi- terranean and its shipment of "arms to certain Arab states to replace those lost in the Arab-Israel war of 1967." The Middle East plank paralleled the strong pro-Israel plank in the plat- form adopted by the Republican National Convention at Miami Beach earlier this month. It declared that "lasting peace in the Middle East depends upon agreed and secured frontiers, respect for the territorial integrity of all states, the guaranteed right of innocent passage through all international waterways, .a humane settlement of the Arab refugees and the establishment of a non- provocative military balance. "To achieve those objectives, we support negotiations among the con- cerned parties," the plank stated. "We strongly support efforts to achieve an agreement among states in the area and those states supplying arms to limit the flow of military equipment to the Middle East. We support efforts to raise the living standards throughout the area, including desalination and regional irrigation projects which cut across state frontiers." At hearings in Washington and Chicago, spokesmen for national Jewish •organizations had urged the Democratic Platform Committee to take a firm stand on Israel and to assure the sale of Phantoms to the Jewish state. But '. the anti-Zionist Council for Judaism and pro-Arab groups appeared with recommendations harmful to Israel. The American Council for Judaism urged a subcommittee not to seek _ support from American Jews "solely on the basis of their supposed partisan- ship for the state of Israel" and called for the registration of the Zionist (Continued on Page 6) Arab Educators' Vicious Hatred' Viewed as Major Peace Obstacle STARLIGHT. Pa. — Arab educators and most government leaders are so "utterly dedicated" to the destruction of Israel tbat they may never accept proposals for peace in the Middle East, in the opinion of an American scholar, just back from an --Official fact-finding mission to Egypt and Jordan. Dr. Allen Pollack, assistant professor of Western history at the University of Pittsburgh, said he had never before encountered such "vicious hatred" as that expressed against Israel by Arab sc holars, many of them graduates of leading American and Euro- pean universities—and to slightly lesser extent by Arab political Leaders, as well. The American historian told a session of the international leadership training conference of the Bnai Brith Youth Organiza- tion at Camp Bnai Brith that Russia alone holds the key to the faint—and only—possibility for peace in the Middle East. "Quite candidly," he said, "I previously thought Israel had not done enough to achieve peace in recent years. Now, however, I ant convinced that nothing it could have done—or can do now— (Continued on Page 7) NEW YORK (JTA)—Two Warsaw Pact countries are attempting to justify their participation in the Soviet invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia to their own people on the grounds that "Zionist forces" were responsible for what they called the "threat to Socialism" in Czechoslovakia. According to a New York Times dispatch from Bonn the Neues Deutschland, the main organ of East Germany's ruling Communist Party, charged that "Zionist forces have taken over the leadership" of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. In Warsaw, ac- cording to the Times, the Polish government's anti-Jewish campaign, which had abated in recent weeks, was revived by Maj. Gen. Jan Czapla, who charged in an article in the Polish Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu that "Zionists" were responsible for the "real threat of transition from socialism to capitalism" which justified the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gen. Czapla, who is deputy chief of the Polish Army's polit- Predict Algeria Will Soon ical board, drew a parallel be- tween the "anti-Socialist" forces Release Plane and Israelis at work in Poland last spring JERUSALEM (JTA)—Algeria is expected short- and those in Czechoslovakia and ly to release the hijacked Israeli airliner and its 12 said the "common element" was passengers and crew members detained since July the "extremely vigorous combi- 23, it was indicated in official quarters here. But nation of revisionism and Zion- there was no news of any specific developments and ism." no one was prepared to say when the plane and its party would be freed. Estimates were that it could It was student unrest and de- happen any time between the next 24 hours and the mands for greater fredom in Po- end of the week. land last spring that touched off Rumors of the plane's imminent release gained an "anti-Zionist," "anti-Israel" currency when a team of three Air France mechan- campaign, inspired by the Polish ics returned to Paris from Algeria where they pre- government and Communist Par- pared the $6,000,000 Boeing 707 for flight. ty. The campaign was recognized The newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that by observers as an attempt to ex- Israel had agreed to make a "humanitarian gesture" ploit latent anti-Semitism by after the plane is released. The report was neither making Poland's surviving Jews confirmed nor denied in official quarters. the scapegoats for the grievances UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — United touched off by student riots. The Nations Secretary-General U Thant has sent one of government vigorously denied his top aides to Algiers, possibly to seek release of the hijacked El Al airliner, it was reported here. this. Nevertheless, scores of Jews who had been devoted Commu- The emissary is Undersecretary-General Jose R olz-Bennett of Guatemala, who left for Algiers nists and held high posts in the last Friday with a written message from Thant to government, the party and in the President Houari Boumedienne. Rolz-Bennett is communications media, as well still in Algiers. as other fields, were summarily (See Commentary, Page 2) (Continued on Page 14) . Iraqi Regime Seize Coca Cola Baghdad Plant BEIRUT, Lebanon—Because of its dealings with Israel, Coca Cola has lost its plant in Baghdad to the new Iraqi regime. The Iraqi information minister announced Aug. 22 in a statement over Baghdad radio that the Coca Cola plant was seized in accordance with an Arab League decision to boy- cott the company. According to the government an- nouncement, the plant will be run by the ministry of industry. The Coca Cola company, two years ago, agreed to sell syrup to Israel. It was announced by the Arab boycott office that production in Arab coun- tries had ended on Aug. 1. Statement of Cairo 'Chief Rabbi' Challenged; Called Collaborator NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Hias Service disputed a statement attributed to the Chief Rabbi of Egypt, Haim Douek, that the 500 Egyptian Jews arrested in the aftermath of the Six- Day War all have been released. According to Gaynor I. Jacob- son, executive vice president of the worldwide migration service, there are still an estimated 250 prisoners being held in the Tourah prison near Cairo. This information, he said, had been substan- tiated by the International Red Cross. Rabbi Douek's statement appeared in a recent edition of the North African weekly magazine "Jeune Afrique," published in Paris. According to Jacobson's information the prisoners were being released regularly until Dec. 15, 1967, and since then only five have been released. It is not clear why the Egyptian authori . ties stopped freeing the prisoners, he said, adding that in many cases, the wives and children of the prisoners still live in Cairo and Alexandria. • More than 1,000 Egyptian Jews have been helped by HIAS to resettle since the Six-Day War. Just last Saturday -39 arrived at (Continued on Page 5)