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Against Official Anti-Semitism in Poland
Continuing anti-Semitic persecu-
tions in Poland have brought about
"a severe crisis" within the Jew-
ish Communist movement in
France that already has caused
defections from the ranks of fol-
lowers of the Communist Party,
according to a report from the
American Jewish Committee's
European office in Paris.
The crisis, which started as a re-
sult of anti-Israel policies of the
Soviet Union during and after the
Six-Day War of June 1967, has now
reached "a state of confusion, dis-
array, and vehement protestation,
both on the part of the leadership
and the rank and file of this move-
ment," the report states. It adds
that Jewish Communists in France
for the first time are putting them-
selves "in open and unequivocal
opposition to official Communist
policies and actions in Eastern
European countries."
The crisis has been noted not so
much among individual Jewish
members and followers of the
French Communist as among the
large organized Yididsh-speaking
groups. These groups have been
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particularly influential among Jew-
ish emigrees from Eastern Europe,
notably Poland, who came to
France both in the period between
the two world wars and since 1945.
Simmering complaints against
official Communist party posi-
tions came out in the open in
October, at the annual confer-
ence of supporters of the Naje
Presse, daily Yiddish-language
newspaper that has long served
as the voice of the Jewish COM -
munist masses in France. This
conference was marked by sharp
criticism of Communist policies
with regard to Israel and more
particularly to policies in Poland.
A. Youdin, a leader of the Jewish
Communist movement in France,
is quoted in the AJC report as hav-
ing stated: "What was particular-
ly disquieting and painful to us
during the past few months were
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does harm to Socialist Poland. It
is our duty to express the deep
anger of the victims and all those
who have ben hurt in their dignity
as courageous long-time fighters
for Socialism.
The final report adopted at the
conference urged the newspaper to
put a stop to the "limited and one-
sided presentation of important
problems, primarily those concern-
ing Jews." A resolution adopted by
this conference and later published
in full in the Naje Presse had this
to say about conditions in Poland:
"Particularly painful to us Jews
are the manifestations in Poland,
where, under the guise of the
struggle against Zionism, there has
been conducted for many months
an anti-Semitic campaign, and by
all the means of mass propaganda,
a campaign which is in full con-
tradiction to the basic principles
of Socialism and humanitarianism.
There has been carried on a policy
of discrimination against Jews.
who are being removed from their
positions only because of their ori-
gin. All those who are forced to
leave the country can choose only
Israel as their destination, there-
by becoming stateless.
"We condemn all kinds of 'theo-
ries' which attempt to justify the
present discrimination, particular-
ly the 'theory' of the undue pro-
portion of Jews in responsible posi-
tions in Poland. We issue a solemn
appeal to all healthy Socialist for-
ces in Poland, and to progressive
forces all over the world, to react
against these anti-Jewish discrim-
inations. We ask that they be stop-
ped and the injustices rectified."
This conference was followed,
the AJC report continues, by a
public meeting Nov. 5 at Hotel
Moderne, Paris, called by the
Association of Jewish Societies,
central body of Jewish Com-
munist organizations in France,
and attended by more than 1,000
persons. Here too Polish anti-
Semitism was condemned, while
the audience noisily protested
against the lack of condemnation
of anti-Semitic policies of the
Soviet Union.
"As yet," the AJC report con-
cludes, "one cannot predict with
certainty the total breakdown of
organized Jewish Communism in
France; but there is no doubt that
anti-Semitism in the Communist
world has been constantly spread-
ing bitterness and disappointment,
causing substantial diminution in
the number of its followers. This
is also evidenced by the fact that
the leaders of the Communist
movement in France are more
than ever issuing statements to the
effect that Communism has a com-
mitment in principle against rac-
ism and anti-Semitism. These pub-
lic statments, however, have little
effect in the face of daily real-
ities."
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