Jew Baiters Using Zionism as Cover Word,
Pincus Tells American Zionist Federation
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Louis A.
Pincus, chairman of the Jewish
Agency for Israel, Monday charg-
ed that Zionism was being used as
a "cover word" for those who
wished to attack Jews and Jewish
values but did not want to use the
word "Jew."
Addressing leaders of 25 major
Jewish organizations gathered at
the Barbizon Plaza -Hotel for the
opening meeting of the American
Zionist Federation's drive for 1,-
000.000 members, Pincus said "Zi-
onism is being used as a denigrat-
ing term by our enemies—Arabs,
Communists and anti-Semites."
He warned that Zionism was be-
ing used to split "Jew from Jew"
and "Jew from Israel" and said
the anti-Semite talks about the dif-
ferences between what he calls the
"modern Jew, the non-imperialistic
Jew, the Jew we can talk to" and
what he says is the "rigid, un-
bending. dogmatic, imperialistic
Zionist."
"What can the American Jew
ao to counter this attack?" he
asked. And he answered, "He
can stand up and proudly say
'yes, I am a Zionist'."
When the Nazis made the Jew
wear a yellow star as a mark of
degradation, Pincus continued, for
many Jews and non-Jews alike,
the yellow star became a "symbol
of dignity." "We should make the
word Zionist a badge of honor,"
he declared.
He cautioned that the upswelling
of Jewish solidarity with Israel
that followed the Six-Day War
cannot be taken for granted, and
added that keeping that feeling of
solidarity is a "fight that has to be
fought every day over and over
again."
Touching on the Middle East,
Pincus warned that the Rogers
Plan (which calls for Israel's re-
turn to her pre-war borders) is not
dead, but is not acceptable to
Israel.
He commented that while the in-
terests of Israel and America co-
incide today, they differed not too
long ago and may differ again in
the future.
Pincus noted that in 1938 there
were many nations willing to tell
a small country (Czechoslovakia)
what to do for survival. "We will
not listen," he declared.
But, he added, the survival of
Israel is not the sole aim of Zion-
ism. The greater aim is the trans-
mission of Jewish education and
Jewish values. Without such a
transmission of values, Zipnism
loses a major portion of its con-
tent, he said.
And he asked the American
Jewish community to "reaffirm
your Zionism in the '70s as an ex-
pression of affirmation with Is-
rael."
Avraham Schenker, head of the
information and organization de-
partment- of the Jewish Agency,
told the delegates the World Zion-
ist Federation was conducting
membership drives in 38 countries
and added "The Jews of the
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world are waiting to see if the
members of the world's largest
Jewish community are willing to
stand up and be counted."
Rabbi Israel Miller, AZF presi-
dent, served as master of cere-
monies.
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`Pro-Israel Lobby' Involved in Ouster
of Yost as UN Envoy, Writers Claim
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A "pro- withdraw from Arab lands cap-
ding
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a
Israel lobby" was alleged by two tur. ecdcointhe196E7war."
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and Novak.
Washington columnists Monday to
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Yost ran afoul of White
White House
have been instrumental in the foreign policy adviser Henry Kis-
ouster of Ambassador Charles W. singer last summer after the latter
Yost as the chief United States called for expelling the Russians
representative to the United Na. from the Middle East.
Yost reportedly cabled the
tions.
According to Rowland Evans State Department that the only
way
to accomplish that was to
and Robert Novak, Yost was the
victim of undercover intrigues be- settle the Mid East dispute,
cause he was "insufficiently pro- after which the Arabs would get
Israel" in UN backstage maneu- rid of the Russians themselves.
The columnists recalled that
verings. The columnists did not
identify the element in this Yost also fought against a U.S.
resolution in the General Assemb-
"lobby."
ly six weeks ago "because it
The Evans-N o v a k allegation, would only dramatize the U.S.-
published in the Washington Post Israel alliance." He was overruled
under the headline "Israel Lobby in Washington.
Cut Down Yost," was given some
According to Tanner's assess-
credence by an earlier news ment, Yost believed that the basic
analysis piece by Henry Tanner, interests of the U.S. in the Mid
published Saturday in the New East call for negotiation of a
York Times.
peaceful settlement and help to
Tanner wrote that "Controver- assure the security of Israel. How-
sy within the administration over ever, "on occasion as United
the Middle East is widely be- States policy was being shaped, he
lieved to have been a factor in is understood to have advocated
his (Yost's) dismissal."
that the United States exert great-
Evans and Novak wrote that er pressure on the Israelis to get
"The undercurrent of suspicion of them to the conference table than
Yost by his zealous pro-Israel other key officials were willing
critics was 'originally based on to accept," Tanner wrote.
He also thought that Yost was
his experience as a U.S. ambas-
sador assigned to the Arab world closer to Secretary of State Rogers
. . . But beyond that, Yost, while on this issue than to Kissinger, who
never once departing from Nixon was dubious about the Rogers
administration policies on the Mid- peace initiative.
dle East, made no secret of his
growing concern over Arab world
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