Brotherhood Week
February 16 to 23:
America Must Never
Abandon Her Goals
Urgent Need
for a Revised
Public Relations
Program in
Defense of
Human Needs
Editorial
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Vol. UV, No. 22
Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews, poses a challenging question: "Is America losing her way?" Dr. Sterling W. Brown,
president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, advances valuable guidelines: "If any-
one wishes to know the alternatives to brotherhood, the correct antonyms can be found in any
thesaurus. They are uncommunicativeness, coldness, standoffishness, inaccessibility, unapproach-
ability, seclusion and the like. If approaches based on such attitudes are preferred by critics of
brotherhood, we are appalled by the direction they have taken." The affirmation of every Ameri-
can, not only during Brotherhood Week but every day in the year, is and must be that America will
See Editorial, Page 4
never abandon her basic goals for democracy and human decency.
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17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE"8-9364—February 14, 1969
Orthodox Rabbis Plan 'Truth Squad'
Mobilization to Fight Anti-Semitism
Religious Spokesmen, Faculty,
Students Make Strong Protests
Against Anti-Semites at WSU
Expressing a sense of- outrage over the spread of anti-Semitic
Sentiments and the distribution of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish pamphlets
On the Wayne State University campus, Christian clergymen, professors
and students, and many prominent community personalities, joined in
the past few days in efforts to offset the menacing situation and to refute
the libelous attacks in the university paper and a forum arranged on the
Campus.
At the same time, while the WSU paper conducted an anti-Israel
propaganda campaign, the WSU Library displayed anti-Israel pamphlets
and El Fatah stamps in a special exhibit that became part of the campus
campaign against Israel. WSU Librarian Flint Purdy has been blamed for
failure to remove the pamphlets that admittedly contain the vilest lies
relating to the developing Middle East situation. Early this week, the
propaganda showcases still were filled with the hate-inciting pamphlets
and the only one who had a key to the showcases, it was reported Tuesday,
was one of the Arab propaganda leaders.
President William R. Keast of WSU issued a call to the editor of
the paper to put an end to his vituperous campaign, and a strong con-
demnation of the anti-Semitic tendencies was issued by a group of
religious leaders associated with the office of religious affairs on the WSU
campus, headed by Rev. Hubert Locke, Rev. David Kidd and Fr. Michael
Hunt, and including Rev. Virgil Jones, Rev. 0. M. Kirkeby, James Lyons,
Rev. Thomas H. F. Masson and Rev. Roger Ruff.
Asserting that they believe in "freedom of the press and the
academic community as the free market place of ideas" but that they
"also cling to the hope that discussion in the academic community will
be concerned with the ideas and actions of rational men and women, not
their bigotries," the clergymen expressed strong dissent from the articles
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NEW YORK (JTA)—An Orthodox rabbinical leader proposed Wednesday the
formation of "truth squads" to reply to anti Semitic attacks from militant Negroes
and he added a demand that communications media be forced to give equal time to
Jews to combat such attacks.
The proposals were made by Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, executive vice president of
the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, a Lubavitcher
organization. Charging that "almost every channel of communication in the United
States is being used to spread vicious anti Semitic remarks," Rabbi Hecht declared it
was "morally and legally right that the Jews who are the hapless object of such
scurrilous falsehoods be given an opportunity to set the record straight.
He said that while a few Negro leaders like Mayor Carl Stokes of Cleveland had
recognized the debt owed by the Negro to Jews, far too many Negro militants "act as
if Jews were the ones who brought him over from Africa, worked them as slaves on
plantations and then exploited them in the cities."
He noted that several weeks ago, during the height of synagogue vandalism and
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attacks on individual Jews in New York City slum
officials could not provide adequate protec-
tion, Jews should organize their own brigades
or auxiliary police forces. He added that he
was now proposing that "we defend our-
selves against these verbal attacks by organ-
izing truth squads comprised of lawyers, edu-
cators and religious. leaders." He noted that
if such volunteer forces did not have com-
munication outlets, "they will be powerless"
and that is why "we must demand equal
time on the radio and TV networks, national
press, educational systems and local levels."
He cited as one major area for such re-
sponses of the public schools, particularly
in New York City, where Negro children
often are exposed to anti-Semitic teachings.
Community Responds With IlecordISrealiiny
Generosity to Crises Facing Jewry and Israel;
Harman Affirms Israel's Rights toDefensireness
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Deeply moved by the message of Hebrew University President Avraham Harman, a large gathering of pre-
campaign participants in Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund activities responded with record gifts at
the dinner meeting Wednesday at the Statler Hilton Hotel.
Increases of approximately 15 per cent over last year's gifts boosted the total with which the drive will open
officially on March 26 to the highest record in Detroit Jewry's philanthropic history.
Maxwell Jospey, campaign chairman, expressed confidence that this year's drive will set the pace for giving
throughout the land. He said there is a possibility, on the basis of contributions received thus far, that Detroit
Jewry will emerge leading the nation in the 1969 campaigns for the United Jewish Appeal, the chief beneficiary
of the Detroit campaign.
Emerging anti-Semitic trends throughout the world, the anti-Jewish episodes in universities, among extremists
and in the black community, contributed towards a feeling of resentment over the anti-Israel sentiments that have
spread to this country from Cairo, Amman, Beirut and Baghdad, and these contributed to the solidarity that is
Creating a measure of unity in Jewish ranks in support of the drive.
Harman's address was a thorough review of Israel's status in the area where new efforts are being made to
destroy the Jewish State and where there is a determination not to permit intrusion of devious methods to have
Israel withdraw into another position of helplessness.
"The strength of Israel is our revolt against Jewish defenselessness," he declared. "In our revolt against a
defenseless position we resolved that is should not happen again."
"World Jewry's encouragement is important for our morale," he stated. "You share with us a great obsession
for life and it is to this obsession that we are dedicated." Quoting from a traditional prayer, he asserted that "God
will give courage to his people and will soon bless it with peace," and it served as an expression of hope for
an early end to ties Arab-Israel conflict.
• Announcing towards the close of the Wednesday dinner meeting that the gifts that night boosted the total
raised in the campaign thus far to $5,396,415, Jospey emphasized the community's deep interest in assuring
Lirael's security and inproviding for the immigrants "who still are coming to Israel in the many thousands
to find refuge from oppression."
"Our campaign assures for us a strong community at home," Jospey added, indicating that it is not Israel
gloat that benefits from the major philanthropic drive here but also the numerous local and national causes
aiid the aid that is given by Detroit agencies to refugees from Egypt, Cuba and other countries who are brought
here for settlement. The over-all local efforts, he said, lend to solidarity "in a fellowship for justice."
' The improvement in Israel's defensive position was described by Harman in his analysis of the events that
preceded the Six-Day War in comparison with conditions which now assure Israel greater safety. Recognizing the
dangers that stem from the terrorist acts and the infiltrations by the guerrillas he pointed out that these ter-
rorists, while they are encouraged by the Arab states, are unable to get the help they want from these states and
their activities result in "hit-and-run tactics."
Expressing concern over the menacing dangers that stem from Russia's aid to Egypt, Harman emphasized
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areas, he had suggested that if city
El Fatah Cla-hns
French, Dutch Aid
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Palestinian Arab
guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat announced
Wednesday in Cairo that French and
Dutch volunteers have joined his forces
to fight Israel. Arafat heads the El
Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation (PLO) guerrilla organizations.
He said Europeans joined El Fatah,
which also includes Arabs from Egypt,
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. Araf
announced the presence of non-Arabs in
his forces shortly before conferring
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Abernathy Joins Vigil
Attended by 3,000 here
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
Almost 3,000 men, women and children braved chill
winds to march around Kennedy Square Sunday afternoon,
in protest against the inhumanity perpetrated in another
public square thousands of miles away in Iraq, where 14
men were hung as alleged spies.
Those who remained until the end of the two-hour pro-
test were rewarded by the appearance of Dr. Ralph Aber-
nathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Con-
ference, who was in Detroit to open Negro History Week.
Rev. Abernathy joined the march briefly before mount-
ing the podium and thanking the protest sponsors, the
Committee for Humanity in Iraq, "for permitting me to
join you for this marvelous witness against man's inhu-
manity to man."
"As a black man," said Rev. Abernathy, "I have
known injustice all my life. ... A threat of injustice any-
where is a threat to man everywhere. We must realize
that this is one world.
"Two thousand years ago, the Jewish people were in
bondage in Egypt," said Rev. Abernathy. "Today, black
people and poor people around the world are in bondage.
.. The Jewish prophet Moses stood in the courts of the
pharaohs and said 'Let my people go!' You have a re-
sponsibility to be the Moseses of the 20th Century. We
must cry out in this nation, in this world, 'Let my people
go!'"
"May God ever bless you and may God give you
strength," said the successor to the late Dr. Martin
Luther King.
As Dr. Abernathy was praising the orderly group
"for the quietness of this demonstration," a young Jor-
danian native, Abder Salam, 24, burst onto the stage area
and tore up a placard bearing a Jewish star. Undeterred
by the outburst, and heckling from across the street by
some members of the ultra-right Breakthrough, Rev.
Abernathy added:
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