Swastika Utilized in Anti-Israel Flyers
SOUTH BEND, Indiana (JTA) — A swastika-adorned flyer demanding that
President Richard M. Nixon "cancel all weapons shipments to the Jews . . . -to kill
more Arab children" was handed out at a Students for a Democratic Society rally
here recently. It carried the name of the National Socialist White People's Party, of
Arlington, Va., successor to the defunct American Nazi Party of the late George
Lincoln Rockwell. The crude handbill carried the headline, "Stop the slaughter, end
Jewish aggression in the Middle East now."
It contained a picture purported to be of an Arab father weeping over his
child slain by Jews and warned that "Every day that we support the Jews, we drive
the Arabs deeper into the arms of the Soviets."
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Synagogue Council, NCRAC Assail
Demands for Black 'Reparations'
Seek to Absolve French
UN Delegate of Charge
of Anti-Semitic Remark
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—French Ambassador
Armand Berard has been erroneously quoted as saying
"Jewish gold" had contributed to the defeat of former
French President Charles de Gaulle, a well-informed
source said here Tuesday. But the envoy did use the
phrase "pro-Israel circles" in the context of a discussion
with several correspondents about de Gaulle's resigna-
tion on April 28, the day after his reform referendum was
defeated, the source said.
Berard, in discussing Gen. de Gaulle's departure
with correspondents in the main delegates lounge, said
that "pro-Israel circles" had spent heavily in the hopes
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Synagogue Council of America and the National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council, representing a great majority of the American Jewish community,
issued a joint statement Monday rejecting the demand of the National Black Economic Develop-
ment Conference for 5500,000,000 in reparations for "200 years of slavery" and its threat to seize
churches and synagogues and hold them in ransom. The joint statement, issued for the guidance of
synagogues and other communal institutions, described the demands and the tactics as objectionable
on both "moral and practical grounds."
The statement was issued after James Forman, leader of the Negro organization, had disrupted
services at New York's Riverside Church to air his demands and his followers had threatened to
disrupt services at Temple Emanu-El in New York. (A group of 10 black militants was arrested in
Los Angeles for interrupting services in the First Methodist Church there to voice the demand for
reparations.) After a meeting with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergymen, Mayor John V. Lind-
say offered to send police to any church or synagogue in the city which feared a possible demon-
stration by the militants.
The joint statement Monday admitted that religious and communal institutions had not done
all they should for racial and economic justice but declared that the reparations demand was not
"the answer to the inequities and injustices of our society." It stressed that "what is required is
massive government action in the areas of employment, housing, education, health and welfare."
This, it said, was why the signatory organizations urged support of the Kerner Commission Report.
Academicians Expose USSR Oppression,
Plead With Western Communist Parties
For Removal of Anti-Jewish Prejudices
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A conference of college faculty members Sunday
appealed "in the strongest possible terms" to the presidiums of Western Com-
munist parties, urging their intervention with the Soviet Union to end dis-
crimination and restrictions imposed on the Soviet Jewish community. The
conference, sponsored by the Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, a group
of some 3,000 American educators, asked that the Western Communist move-
ments intercede with their "Soviet colleagues" when the groups gather June 5
in Moscow for the first international meeting of Communist parties since 1960.
In their appeal, the U.S. academicians noted that "in the past two years,
this (Soviet) policy of discriminatory deprivation has been pursued in an
atmosphere poisoned by massive anti-Jewish propaganda. The Soviet govern-
ment," the statement said, has become the world's principal "source and sponsor
of such propaganda."
Calling on the Soviet Union to restore Jewish cultural and educational in-
stitutions and to allow Soviet Jews freedom to emigrate, the Academic Commit.
tee declared: "At a moment in history when East and West are seeking to
achieve greater mutual understanding and when public opinion plays so crucial
a role, a humane policy may also be the most practical politics."
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The statement urged congregations and communal institutions to "redouble
their efforts" to effect restoration of state and federal budget cuts in the areas
of employment, housing, education, health and welfare and "indicate their sup-
port of higher taxes, if necessary, adequately to finance these measures."
The joint statement also urged the synagogue and community to "strengthen
communications with black communities, both on the clergy and lay levels, and
to contribute to the support of indigenous self-help projects." The two organi-
zations said they and their national constituent agencies were prepared to assist
synagogue and communal institutions in the implementation of these goals.
The joint statement condemned the tactics used by the Black Economic
Conference to further its demands, charging that they "involve disruption of
divine services, demands for 'ransom' and threats of violence."
It noted that "violence does not contribute to the fashioning of a better
society," warning that "violence only breeds more violence and nourishes re-
pression, not justice." The statement affirmed that "the 'revolution' in our
cities and on our campuses does not create its own morality. The exegesis
which enables some religious leaders to suspend biblical injunctions against
violence, arson and murder and to invest these with a special grace when com-
mitted in the name of the 'revolution,' has no sanction in Jewish tradition."
The two coordinating bodies said they issued their statement at this time
"not only to clarify our position in regard to the demands and the tactics of
the Black Economic Development Conference, but to urge that reprehensible
actions not be permitted to divert our attention from the hard tasks which re-
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Detroit Jewry Forms Strong Links With Hebrew University;
Bormans Establish Dormitory; Program for Students of Ul -IS
President Avraham Har-
man of the Hebrew Uni-
versity (left) will address
the dinner in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
Borman, at Cong. Shaar-
ey Zedek, Wednesday,
marking establishment
of Borman Dormitory on
Mount Scopus.
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United Hebrew Schools students will study at the Hebrew University this summer. Program
participants will be (from left) standing, Beverly Brudolej, Daniel Cutler, Raya Goldenberg and
Andrew Beider; seated, Beverly Weintraub, Barbara Silberschein, Ilene Grassman and Naomi Engel.
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