Active Program to Assist Israel,
Soviet Jewry Outlined to Leaders
Experts in the field of public
relations who have specialized in
areas involving Russia, Israel and
civic-protective responsibilities
guided a regional conference on
Jewish issues, last weekend, at
the Wayne State University Bnai
Brith Billet Center, to advise lo-
cal leaders on methods of aproach-
ing the public media, religious
groups and government on prob-
lems that are now arising as chal-
lenges to American Jewry.
Dr. Judd Teller, program coor-
dinator of the Bnai Brith Inter-
national Council, in an extensive
and thorough review of the multi-
ple issues arising out of the needs
to protect Israel and to convey
American Jewry's proper position
on the Middle East situation,
warned against continuation of
docility which had been a handi-
cap in previous actions pursued
by American Jews.
He criticized the hesitancy that
hitherto marked aproaches to gov-
ernments and to those who are
responsible for Middle Eastern
affairs and urged firm steps in
Israel's defense.
It was an appeal for fearless.
ness and for refusal to sacrifice
the just rights of a people in its
kinsmen's behalf, and Dr. Teller
especially protested against any
efforts on the part of the State
Department or other officials to
intimidate Jews into inactivity.
Dr. 'Teller repudiated the posi-
tion of Dr. Nahum Goldmann. He
spoke of him as a- man who con-
sistently refused to make Israel
his home, who was not a sabra
or an Israeli citizen yet assumed
to speak for Israel.
On the question of the SDS
and the Panthers, Dr. Teller urged
that every effort be made to
alienate young Jews from SDS
activities whence stem anti-Israel
sentiments. He deplored what he
called "squatters in someone
else's realm" in some of the em-
phases on Jewish civil rights
roles.
The campaign being conducted
against its Jewish citizens by the
Soviet regime "has raised the
shadow of Stalinist anti-semitism,"
Dr. William Korey, head of Bnai
Brith's office at the United Na-
tions charged Sunday.
Begun as a drive to demonstrate
to the Arab rulers it is supply-
ing with arms its total condem-
nation of Israel, it has "swiftly
degenerated into an irrational anti-
Semitic campaign into which have
been pressed Jews high and low,
proclaiming their undying loyalty
with pathetic fulsomeness, signing
outrageous libels against Israel
and world Uewry," Korey said.
"For the hostages who have been
coerced, one can only feel com:
passion."
"We stand aghast at a cyni-
cism that describes Zionists as
racists and Israel as Nazi, that
claims the Zionists cooperated
with Adolf Eichmann, that in-
sists Zionists collabrated with
the Nazis in the slaughter of
100,000" Jews at Babi Yar."
Such "transparently specious ac-
cusations," Korey said, were in-
tended. to intimidate Soviet Jews
and to dampen their natural feel-
ings for Israel. It was precisely
against "this poisonous atmos-
phere" that Soviet Jews have re-
acted. "They have no intention
of submitting meekly any longer.
Scores of them are boldly declar-
ing to the Soviet authorities, and
to the United Nations and the
world, that they will not tolerate
humiliation and that they demand
the right to leave for Israel. No
amount of propaganda and pres-
sure is likely to undo" such feel-
ing, he said.
Rabbi Jay Kaufman, executive
vice president of Boat Brith, in
the opening address Saturday
evening, deplored that few
American Jews are equipped to
answer "sophisticated attacks on
Israel by an informed enemy."
Arab propaganda is no longer
the blatant, shrill type of attack
it once was; today "they hire
Madison Avenue type agencies;
their propaganda is smooth. And
we haven't responded in kind."
As respectable a source as the
Quaker Church was described by
Rabbi Kaufman as "bitterly anti-
Israel" in its position demanding
withdrawal from all land taken
in the Six-Day War and "justice"
to the Arab refugees. "Why is it
that everything is. Israel's fault?
. . . Is the Protestant community
repelled by the image of the Jew
as victor?" Rabbi Kaufman asked
rhetorically.
Secretary of State W illiam
Rogers' statement of Dec. 9 hints
at a disturbing climate in the
U.S., said Rabbi Kaufman. It is
a climate of weariness of being
tellite, the U.S. would "have to
intervene or face being a second-
rate power." Every Phantom sold
to Israel "prevents the U.S. from
involving her own pilots and
planes," said Rabbi Kaufman.
He urged that Bnai Brith leader-
ship encourage their families, and
the families of. all their members,
to write letters to Michigan. con-
gressmen as a powerful counter-
action to President Nixon's deci
sion withholding jets. He stressed
the importance of transmitting
knowledge about the Middle East
because the "great propaganda
war in that area may be greater
than the military war."
Billy B. Goldberg of Houston,
chairman of the Bnai Brith Cab-
inet on Israel Affairs and a for-
mer Democratic National, Com-
mitteeman, said the Jewish com-
munity must not write off the
Nixon administration, and ex-
pressed his belief that it will be
"an administration of flexibility.
Let us continue to urge the admin-
istration to be a friend of Israel
because it's in our country's best
interests," he said.
a global power, of being eager to
turn away from foreign involve-
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ments, he said.
There were two incorrect as-
sumptions in Rogers' speech, said
Rabbi Kaufman. These were that
the Arabs will be appeased by a
shift toward their position (and a
move toward the Soviet position
in the Mid East) and that there
will be an increase in stability
in the area if the U.S. does not
overidentify with Israel.
The assumptions are false, said
Rabbi Kaufman, because the "Arab
leaders won't be satisfied with
less than total destruction of
Israel. "Every time you see the
term 'even-handed,' a light should
go off in your head. The Arabs
cannot pay the price for Israeli
withdrawal, because it means rec-
ognition of Israel and living in con-
cord and amity with Israel."
F,alse assumptions, such as those
in the Rogers statement, are
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The most ominous element in
the Middle East picture, said
Rabbi Kaufman, is the problem
of nuclear weapons. When he
was in Israel, he was told "Of
course we have no nuclear
weapons, but we have all the
ingredients . . . " If Israel
faces imminent destruction, he
said, "she might be led to a
counsel of despair."
If there were no Israel In the
Middle East, said Rabbi Kaufman,
the United States could not stand
against Soviet goals. Without an
Israel, to keep the Middle East
from becoming another Soviet sa-
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