Soviet Attack on Israel Erupts at UN Rights Session

UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The
Soviet Union's current anti-Israel,
anti-Zionist campaign had its
parallel in a bitter exchange in
the United Nations Human Rights
Commission between the Ukrain-
ian and Israeli delegates.
Peter Nedbailo of the Ukraine,
equated Zionism with Nazism,
claimed that Zionists fostered anti-
Semitism to serve their own pur-
poses and alleged that Jews, in his
country enjoyed full religious and
cultural freedom and had repu-
diated the state of Israel.
Moshe Leshem, the Israeli dele-
gate, accused Nedbailo of reading
from the Protocols of the Elders
of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic
forgery of the 19th Century.
The Soviet delegate, Nikhor I.
Yevdokeyev, joined in the polemics
briefly to charge that Israel was
an accomplice in the violation of
human rights by South Africa.
The exchange took place dur-

ing the 26th session of the Hu-
man Rights Commission debat-
ing a draft resolution on the
violation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms.

Meanwhile the Soviet Commun-
ist Party newspaper Pravda pro-
minently featured an article claim-
ing that the "overwhelming ma-
jority" of Soviet Jews had chosen
to assimilate with Russians and
other Soviet ethnic groups.
The writer was a Russian Jew,
Prof. Iosif S. Braginsky, editor of
a journal on Asian and African
affairs. Prof. Braginsky claimed
that the Soviet Union "has his-
torically proven that the Jewish
question can be radically solved
and removed from the agenda on
the basis of the victory of social-
ism."
He said that historical experi-
ence showed that most Soviet
Jews wanted to work and live
among other Soviet peoples.
"Naturally, in those circum-
stances, there takes place a pro-
cess of assimilation of consider-
able groups of the Jewish popula-
tion. Mixed marriages, the use by
Jews of Russian, Ukrainian, Bye-
lorussian, Georgian and other lan-
guages as their native tongues
and the overcoming of religious
and ethnic prejudices have con-
tributed to the fact that this pro-
cess is proceeding absolutely vol-,
untarily in conditions of the social-
ist system," Prof. Braginsky
wrote.
Nedbailo asserted that there
were synagogues and scores of
prayer houses in the Ukraine and
no one could complain that there
was no opportunity to exercise
one's religion. He also said that
a protest against Zionism had
been addressed to the prime min-
ister and rabbinate of Israel by
more than 100 Ukrainian Jews.
He charged that Zionism pro-
pagated the superiority of Jews
over all other races and that it
has always been against socialism.
Lesham retorted that there was
more socialism practiced in one
Israeli kibutz than in the entire
Ukrainian Republic.

The Ukrainian claimed that
Israeli emissaries visiting Odessa
were thrown out by Odessa Jews.
Ile said he had at his disposal
many dozens of letters from
Jews who went to Israel and
now want to be reunited with
their families in the USSR. Ile
charged that Israel prevented
them from returning.

Referring to the ban on Jewish
emigration to Israel, he said state
authorities had to take account of
the fact that Israel was in a state
of war and this would mean "a
supply of cannon fodder to the
aggressive state of Israel."
Leshen said his government
never prevented anybody from
leaving Israel and Israeli law was
clear on that point.
Mrs. Rita E. Hauser, U.S. dele-
gate to the United Nations, told
the commission that all member
nations should support the rights
of minorities in all countries and
urged the Soviet Union to take all

necessary steps to ensure a "flour-
ishing life" for its Jews and other
minorities.
In this connection, she said,
emigration should not be prohibit-
ed. The distinct culture and iden-
tity of each minority, she said, en-
hanced Soviet life, and suppres-
sion would greatly affect that life.
Mrs. Hauser said she would ap-
peal to the Soviets to review their
anti-Israel campaign, which she
said was being conducted with
Russian Jews "as members of the
orchestra."
The Egyptian delegate to the
UN, Hussein Khallaf, charged
that Israel's insistence on refer-
ring to Jews in Egypt and other
countries as specific entities and
of describing such entities as
"oppressed" was an attempt to
create Jewish "fifth columns"
that even many Jews opposed.
He said Israel had no right to
"identify" all Jews, that they very
often prefer to be known by their
nationalities rather than by their
religion, and that the Israeli atti-
tude was not only dubious but
dangerous to the international
political structure.

In Tel Aviv, a Polish-Jewish
journalist who said he had close
contacts with Russian Jews

claimed meanwhile that the
"vast majority of them would
like to leave the Soviet Union
and come to Israel.

and its denial of basic rights to Police were on hand but did not
Soviet Jews.
interfere with the street-corner
Richter said the counter-exhibit activity.
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would follow the Soviet exhibit to
,Haim Himmelfarb, 47, arrived Chicago, San Francisco, San An
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and
New
Orleans.
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at Haifa with 187 other immi-
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grants. Before leaving Poland he it also would be staged again in
wrote for a trade union organ New York as long as the Soviet
display remained here.
under the name Henrik Weber.
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He said some persons emerging
Himmelfarb claimed that unlike
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