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'Let Our
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Major Call
for Justice
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A Courageous
Plea From
USSR War Hero
Who Gave Up
Medals for
Right to Be a Jew
Review of Jewish News
Commentary
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January 15, 1971
FBI on Trail of JDL; National
Organizations Reject Violence
$5,595,000 in Initial Gifts
Launches Allied Campaign
An encouraging beginning was recorded for the 1971 Allied
Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund when less than 150
men, who gathered at a campaign meeting at the Great Lakes
Club Monday night, pledged $5,595,000. The same men had
given $4,136,000 in the 1970 campaign.
Conducted under the leadership of Max M. Shaye and Meyer
Fishman, this year's campaign chairmen, with Paul Zuckerman
assisting in enrolling the contributors, the meeting heard an
important message ,from Shimon Peres, Israel minister of
transportation and posts.
Shaye and Fishman pointed to the serious needs of the
time in their appeals for extraordinary giving in the present
drive. Zuckerman, who introduced the guest speaker, imple-
mented their appeal with emphasis on the urgency of the hour
and the dangers facing Israel which impose obligations on
American Jewry to assure the small state's security.
Peres reviewed the existing conditions in Israel and placed
emphasis on the need for American Jews to remain in the
forefront of Israel's protectors through the support provided
to help the nation defend itself.
Calling attention to the global confrontation, the democracy
as represented by the United States opposed by the Communism
of the Soviet Union, Peres did not rule out the possibility of a
renewed Middle East war.
He declared that there has never before been as close a
relationship between Israel and the United States as now, and
he explained the American role of retaining influence in the
Mediterranean at a time when Russia aims at gaining control
of that area.
Peres told of the vast amount of Russian , military supplies
being poured into the Arab lands and said that 10 per cent of
the Ressian ground-to-ground missiles have been sent to Egypt.
He expressed gratitude for the $500,000,000 granted by the U.S.
to Israel in the form of a loan, but he emphasized that this sum
makes possible the purchase of only 150 Phantoms and that
the assistance given to Egypt by Russia exceeds this many-fold.
The vast amount of Russian aid gives Egypt the courage
to threaten renewal of the war, Peres said. "We must be pre-
pared to meet the unhappy predictions of a new conflict,"
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Editorial
Since Jews Reject
Vigilantes, Blaming
U.S. or Jewry Marks
Another Witch Hunt
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Spokesmen for all national Jewish organizations and representatives of many local
American Jewish communities, including Detroit, joined in repudiating terrorism and any
form of violence in the protests against Russian mistreatment of its Jewish citizens. The
statements were addressed to President Nixon as federal authorities were initiating steps
to prevent further bombings and to avoid threats to Russian diplomats in this country. The
repudiation of the actions of the Jewish Defense League was accompanied by affirmations of
the right to protest Russian discriminations and to insist upon the just cause in demanding
that Jews be granted the right to emigrate from the USSR and to settle in Israel.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A crackdown by U. S. authorities on the militant Jewish De-
fense League is imminent, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned Tuesday. Apparently under
pressure from the State Department, police in New York and several other cities where the
JDL has been active are taking strong measures to prevent the group from carrying out its
threat to harass Soviet diplomats because of the alleged mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet
Union. The FBI has been on the case since last Friday.
State Department spokesman John King said at a press briefing Tuesday that the
State and Justice departments are continuing their consultations on possible legal measures
against the JDL but that no decision has been reached. King said he didn't know whether
activities by the JDL so far were "actionable," adding that that was a lawyers' problem. He
said "we have taken note of statements coming from Mr. (Meir) Kahane (chairman of the
JDL), and that will be part of the problem examined at Justice."
(Kahane was arrested in New York Tuesday for failure to appear in court on Jan. 6-7
for arraignment on charges of disorderly conduct and incitement to riot during a demon-
stration near the Soviet UN mission last month. On that occasion he was freed on his own
recognizance. On the dates set for his court appearance, he was in Israel. He was picked up
Tuesday on a bench warrant and brought by detectives to police headquarters for question-
ing. He was released on $3,000 bail).
Unofficial sources here said Tuesday that the government might resort to the injunctive
process to restrain the JDL.
King said that the State and Justice departments were considering appropriate measures
further to protect Soviet personnel and denen-
dents. He noted that local police were taking
Report U. S. Pleased
special measures to protect Soviet semi-official
___–and commercial establishments.
With Latest Israel
L (The JDL has reportedly started its threatened
Proposals for Peace
campaign to harass Soviet personnel. A spokesman
for the Soviet UN mission in New York said Mon-
Dr. Gunnar Jarring's missies to Israel
day that Soviet diplomats had been followed on
last week is reported to have created a more
foot and by car "by gangs of hoodlums" from the
satisfactory atmosphere that may assure con-
JDL. He said the followers carried signs calling
rnuation of the cease fire after Feb. 5. The
Jarring talks were resumed on Monday and
the diplomats "pies" and had shouted epithets
are continuing at the United Nations.
which included "the dirtiest four-letter word
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An unpleasant situation has been created by the unforgivable act of a handful of irresponsible people who threw a bomb
near the Russian Embassy in Washington. it brought the prompt and understandable apologies from our government. It
aroused again the indignation of the entire American Jewish community, except for the few guilty who committed the
atrocious act. If, out of such inanities, the Jewish community will suffer rebuke, it will mark another inexcusable develop-
ment. Jews do not approve of terrorism of any sort and that should be understood without need for unnecessary apologies.
But our government had already explained to the Russians that fewer than 100 supporters of the Jewish Defense League
are responsible for the threats to Russia at the United Nations. The entire JDL membership is so limited nationally that any
attempt to blame either the United States or American Jewry represents the aim of the Soviet Union to find a scapegoat
for its own guilt in its treatment of its Jewish citizens and its refusal to permit those who wish to emigrate to leave the land
that prevents them from adhering to a -faith and a culture that is their heritage.
Insofar as the JDL is concerned, the national Jewish organizations, all the congregational bodies, have repudiated its
actions and have rejected its methods of either protesting indignities or defending Jewish rights. Vigilantism stands rejected
in this country. The Anti-Defamation League views JDL actions as "amateur barbarism."
But there is another aspect in the case that needs emphasis. The abuses of Americans in Moscow, which have been indi-
cated as proof of Russia's being outraged by the condemnations of her actions in this country, have been judged as follows
by correspondents' reports from Moscow:
"U.S. Embassy officials said they have no doubt that the vandalism and the stopping of Americans on the street were
carried out by Soviet security personnel acting under.orders. These are the only people who could confidently spot an Ameri-
can and who would not fear carrying out vandalism in public."
Unless this is understood, the entire matter involving Russia's protests will be misunderstood. There must be no fears
in any way to affect our demand that Russia stop its persecution of Jews or that it honor the "Let Our People Go!" demand.
Irresponsible vandalism is not our collective guilt. Our total responsibility is to assure justice for Russian Jewry. Let the
record speak for itself as a weapon for acquisition of honorable status for our kinsmen in the Soviet Union!