Arab I'ropaga nda Gains Im petus in IT. S. Propaganda designed to win sym- pathy for the Arab cause and to I spread hostility to Israel has been stepped up in tempo and volume and is becoming increasingly pro- fessionalized, a new report by the American Jewish Committee has disclosed. The 24-page report. "Arab Ap- peals to American Public Opinion Today," indicates that since the Six-Day War the Arab propaganda effort has replaced its "clumsy un- selective approaches of yesteryear —by more sophisticated techniques aimed at particular audiences — such as church groups, the student left, or the disaffected blacks." The themes of Arab propa- ganda, the report states, have shifted since 1967 from biblical and legal reasons against the ex- istence of a Jewish state to moral arguments against Israel as an actual entity. Specifically, the Arab propaganda effort focuses on alleged Israel mistreatment of Arabs within and without her borders, especially in dealing with the refugee problem. The American Jewish Committee tions, the Palestine Liberation Or- ganization, and the Palestine Arab Delegation. On the campus, the main agency for Arab propaganda. the report shows, is the Organiza- tion of Arab Students, which claims more than 8,000 members and more than 100 chapters in the U.S. and Canada. A major focus of the Arab effort, the report continues, has been in the churches, where Arabs and their supporters have employed both anti-Zionism and religious anti-Semitism to sway attitudes of American churches toward Israel. In this effort, the survey declares, - substantial headway has been made, especially among Protestant leaders." Many welfare groups to allevi- ate the plight of Arab refugees have been established or reacti- vated, the survey points out. In some of them, "humanitarian aims ... seem to be accompanied by ill will or propagandistic in- tent toward Israel," the report states. Another major Arab effort, the survey states, is being made in establishing ties with the Black Muslim movement and with other black extremists. In dealings with American anti- Semites of the far right, the sur- vey shows, "the Arab professionals during recent years have taken pains to dissociate themselves pub- . licly from lunatic-fringe elements. But this has not kept the street- ' corner rabble-rousers and gutter- publicists from pleading the Arab cause on their own." The fringe organizations of Amer. ican politics, the report discloses, show hostility toward Israel on both the far right and the far left. The American radical right, which cheered Israel in 1967, "has shifted toward an anti-Israel stance" while the entire far left" is united in its condemnation of Israel," itde- clares. In a brief summary of Arab efforts in other countires, the report • finds parallel efforts in Great Bri- tain. Argentina, Sweden, Australia, and most other countries of the Western World. Yount:, Massachusetts Rabbi, Attacked 2 A --ailants Blames Urban Tension survey declares that "official" Arab propaganda is disseminated Ar a b I nf Norwmation Cen- thr ough ss office s in e York, Chi- 1)y ter, %tabthe cago. Dallas. Ottawa. San Fran- War." He said national Jewish MATTAPAN. Mass. (JTA) — A cisco and Washinoton' In addition 28-year-old rabbi who was severly agencies were neglecting "the ° ' prolific activities have been under- burned when two assailants at- needs of poor, urban Jewish taken in this country by the Action tacked him with an acid bomb in communities." He added that Committee on American-Arab Rela- his home here last month said that such communities needed social the incident may have been re- workers and other facilities for laced to the tensions between Jews the aged and the poor, but that Brandeis University and Negroes in his once predomi- the Jewish agencies apparently felt they were "a poor invest- Names William Haber nantly Jewish neighborhood. ( Rabbi Gerald B. Zelermyer of ment." as a Trustee-Elect Temple Beth Hillel here was the The Advocate declared editoral- WALTHAM, Mass.—William Ha- victim of two youths who rang the lv that "the most shameful re- ber, dean emeritus of the College doorbell, handed him a note and action" by the community to the of Literature. Science and the Arts hurled an acid bomb in his face attack would be "simply to ignore this plethora of human problems." of the University of Michigan. has before fleeing. been named a trustee-elect of The note began, "dearest rabbi," In a statement in the Advocate, the Brandeis University. contained obscene language and rabbi said that the fault was not in Named a Fellow of Brandeis :n ordered him to "get out of town,•• the "black incursion" into Matta- 1958, Dean Haber has been a long- he said. Temporarily blinded but pan but with the community which time adviser to the university. since fully recovered, the rabbi had "sounded a requiem for our He has been a consultant to the said he was unable to identify his area through almost wholesale in- secretaries of labor of five national assailants. The note was destroyed difference to our plight. The afflu- ent have left. The less affluent, who administrations and was a member by the acid, he said. need help, mostly remain." of the advisory council which re- : The rabbi said his assailants obviously knew who he was and that they apparently had been watching his home, where he 1 lives alone, for some time. He added this indicated that the at- tack was planned and not a ran- dom incident, but he indicated that he could think of no reason why he was singled out. He added he intended to remain in Mattapan. 12—Friday, July 25, '1969 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Western Wall Dispute Is Resolved With Fence JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Minister of Religion Dr. Zorah Warhaftig have reached agreement on a set- tlement of the Western Wall dis- pute that arose Tuesday when some 300 Orthodox Jews blocked archaeological digging near the Wall. The ministers agreed that the diggers would resume their work and that prayer will continue at the wall with a barbed wire secur- ity fence dividing the worshipers from the workmen and their 9- yard deep digging and preventing dangerous falls. The digging is taking place near the newly exposed section of the wall adjacent to the already clear- ed portion of the Wall. Some 300 persons, praying at the Western Wall, joined the dem- CANDIDS onstration Tuesday and left the site several hours later only when they were warned that the police might be called. Prof. Benjamin Mazar, head of the excavation near the wall, said work will continue un- less he receives instructions from the government to discontinue operations. All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.—Mon- taigne. MORRIS BUICK IS THE BUY Of Weddings a. Bar Mitzvahs Sauk- You Get More Buick For Less Photographers UN 4-8785 UN ALL TYPES OF MORTGAGES 525,000 to $250,000,000 Money AT MORRIS BUICK 14500 W. 7 Mile AT LODGE X-wAY J. C. SOSNICK 341-7998 342-7100 SUNDAY SPECIAL ! "LOVE MACHINE" $R615 $ 5•21 971cathannk Oak jP.ahli, BOOK-A-RAMA 398-4764 13645 W. 9 MILE RD. Open 9:30-9:00 Mon. thru Sot, 11:00-8:00 Sunday Sammy Davis Jr. Pays Long-Waited Trip to Wall JERUSALEM — Ever since he converted to Judaism in 1955, Sam- my Davis Jr. has wanted to visit the Wailing Wall. He had his chance Sunday on a one-day trip. In a traditional gesture, the American entertainer placed a note The rabbi told the Jewish Tele- containing a wish in a crevice of graph Agency that he tried to the Western Wall. withhold news of the assault for Be told hundreds of fans at fear of increasing neighborhood Lydda Airport, as tears poured tensions, but the story was pub- down his cheeks, that he could lished in the Advocate, a Jewish not "find words to express my weekly in Boston. It spurred the satisfactions at being in Israel, I Jewish Community Council of Met- the the e mo r country o my spirit DR. WILLIAM HABER ropolitan Boston to join with rabbis and my religion." He met with drafted the Social Security Act in in the Dorchester-Mattapan section male and female soldiers and 1939. He is presently a member of to alert city officials to the need returned to London where he is the Advisory Council on Employ. for more protection and other help. shooting a film. He told his ad- ( A meeting was held with police mirers that he might return in ment Security. During the Depression, Dean officials who promised to provide September. He told newsmen: "Like every Haber was Michigan state emer- adequate police protection for con- gency relief administrator, chair- I gregants, particularly the elderly. Jew, my feelings at the Wall were man of the commission which Robert Segal, JCC director, urged deep and personal. This is my reli- drafted Michigan's Unemployment residents to report all incidents to gious home. It's great here. A great Insurance Law, and a member of the JCC and to rely on police to thrill. It is a kind of oneness I the Michigan Unemployment Com- provide safety. have with Israel and the Jewish Rabbi Zelermyer said he con- people." pensation Commission. He has been associated with the sidered the attack on him part of the spreading malaise affecting Tel Aviv Court Bars Exit Department of Commerce as a member of the public advisory most large cities where aspiring of Folk Singer Nehama committee to the Area Redevelop- blacks confronted established ment Administration and serves as whites. In Mattapan, he said, the TEL AVIV (JTA) — A rabbinical a member of the Regional Export whites happen to be Jews, those court here issued a temporary in- Expansion Council appointed by too old or too poor to have joined junction barring Jewish folk singer the white exodus to the suburbs. Nehama Lifschitz, who recently the secretary of commerce. In Mattapan, he told the JTA, came to Israel from Russia, from A member of the National Acad- emy of Arbitrators, he has wide black families are moving in as leaving Israel. Jewish families depart. He said The injunction was sought by her experience in labor negotiations. Robert S. Boas of Great Neck, that real estate speculators, "block husband, Haim Binstein, who N.Y., chairman and executive vice busters," both Negro and Jewish, claimed his wife planned to desert president of Carl Marks & Co.. Inc., were trying to panic Jewish fam- him now that she has become of New York, also has been a lies into selling their property. He famous. Miss Lifschitz claimed in trustee-elect of Brandeis Univer- reported that Negroes had sought court that her marriage to her to buy his synagogue's quarters much younger husband was ficti- sity. Trustees-elect at Brandeis exer- and that their intermediary was a tious in that she married him to cise the same authority as trustees Jew. save him and his family from the He asserted that the problems Nazis after the invasion of Lithu- with the exception of voting powers. The trustees-elect become in Mattapan had nationwide sig- aria in 1940. 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