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New Left Support for Arab Terrorists Abating?
NEW YORK—Support by the
New Left in the United States and
Europe for the Arab terrorists in
the Middle East conflict has mark-
edly decreased in recent months,
a report by the American Jewish
Committee discloses.
A. comprehensive survey of New
Left attitudes and actions was made
public here Thursday by Philip E.
Hoffman, president of the AJC,
at the opening of its 65th annual
meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho-
tel.
The report, prepared by Milton
Ellerin, director of the Committee's
trends analyses division, in collabo-
ration with Abraham S. Karlikow,
director of its European office,
indicated that the extent of New
Left attacks on Israel had abated
because of:
• Disillusion by the New Left
with Arab terrorist forces following
their defeat by King Hussein's
army in Jordan last fall.
• The general over-all decline
in influence, importance and pro-
gram activity by the New Left.
The re-emergence of Viet-
nam as a dramatic issue to ab-
sorb remaining New Left ener-
gies, as contrasted with the situa-
tion before the U.S. incursions
into Cambodia and Laos.
• The increasing concern of
New Left groups with other local
issues in various countries.
• A split among New Left
groups about which Arab states
and political parties to support
and which to oppose, as contrasted
with the near unanimity of New
Leftists in years past in over-all
support of the Arab terrorist cause.
• The tentative steps toward
peace taken by Israel and Egypt,
spurred by the United States and
the Soviet Union, which have evap-
orated the position that some New
Left forces had assigned them-
selves of providing the grounds for
an entente between Jews and Arabs
on the basis of their "progressive"
ideologies.
• The Leningrad trials by the
Soviet Union against certain Jews,
with the resultant outcry it pro-
voked in the world, which moved
certain anti-Soviet New Leftists
to cease their consistent anti-Israel
position, since they now • were
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6—friday, May 14, 1971
AJCommittee Issues Report
aligned with Israel in protesting
the treatment of Jews in the So-
viet Union.
The American Jewish Commit-
tee survey, while pointing to
these aspects of change in New
Left. attitudes, warned that the
New Left campaign against Is-
rael and Zionism, frequently
w it h anti-Semitic undertones,
"has not stopped altogether."
The AJC report showed the de-
cline that had taken place in the
New Left organizationally since
September 1970. "The fragmented
SDS no longer exists as a viable
force. The Weatherman faction
with its addiction to violence has
alienated most radical students
. . . The Black Panthers, once a
prolific source of pro-Al Fatah,
anti-Zionist, anti-Israel and anti-
Semitic propaganda, is in the
throes of a death struggle,"
Another significant factor in re-
ducing the volume of leftist at-
tacks on Israel, the report pointed
out, has been "the vigorous attack
against the pro-Arab, anti-Israel
posture of the campus Left
1 a u n c h e d by Jewish radical
groups."
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Assembly of America, declared
that "Israel cannot become a sur-
rogate for American Jewry's obli-
gation to the covenant of Jewish
existence."
Rabbi Kelman explained: "In
Israel, hopefully, we can help
demonstrate the special qualities
which a state with a Jewish ma-
jority can exemplify in creating a
society where. justice and compas-
sion prevail. And the American
Jew can do no less in demonstrat-
ing that he can create a Jewish
society in a nation which welcomes
diversity and in which the Jewish
segment retains its voluntary
loyalty to preserving an identity
and role consistent with our herit-
age and hallowed hopes."
Rabbi Kelman added that "the
reawakening of Jewish consci-
ousness and mutual responsibil-
ity in recent years" made him
"confident that the inexorable
choices which confront us will
deepen our interdependence and
enable both Israel and American
Jewry to develop vibrant Jew-
ish traditions." He noted that
"Despite repeated predictions of
gloom about Jewish life in
America, every indicator points
to a larger number of young and
old more intensely involved in
every aspect of Jewish educa-
tion and commitment than at
any previous period."
The convention's keynote speech
was delivered by Gov. Frank
Licht of Rhode Island. The legis-
lator. a member of the Conserva-
tive Synagogue in Providence and
former president of the General
Jewish Committee of Providence,
cautioned that "We must guard
against any imposed world plan
that would endanger Israel's secu-
rity." He said "Peace cannot and
should not be imposed on the Mid-
dle East — as desperately as the
Middle East needs peace."
Licht also called for freedom of
emigration for Soviet Jews, an end
of harassment, the eradication of
anti-Jewish discrimination in em-
ployment and -higher education,
and freedom of "full expression
of their national-cultural identity,
which has been denied to them"
but granted to "all other Soviet
nationalities."
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Congregations Urg ed to Solicit Youth
in Replacing 'Tired Leadership'
GROSSINGER, N.Y. (JTA) —
The new president of the National
Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs
chastised those who seek "to
achieve peace of mind and stabil-
ity by the practice of unusual cul-
tures such as psychedelic sight
and sound, eccentric modes of
dress, radical or bizarre religious
orientations, drug involvement and
other balms."
Jewish youths today, said Max
M. Goldberg, a Washington, D.C.
lawyer, are asking: "Why should
I be a Jew? What does it mean?"
The answer to these youths—
"many of them deeply idealistic,
groping for a new and better way
of life"—must be answered "in an
affirmative and vital way 11:1S7 our
active participation in a program
of Jewish content that can be an
integral part of our way of life as
Jews," Goldberg declared. "This
is the challenge that Judaism faces
today," he said. "It is a challenge
that we should all accept."
The Federation president called
on congregations _ to actively soli-
cit the participation of youth, and
to let "young and vibrant mem-
bers replace tired and dedicated
leadership, for the alternative is
perpetuation, and is likened to a
field of corn which is constant—
planted but never rotated, its im-
potence being assured."
Detroiter I. Murray Jacobs
was elected treasurer of the
federation, and Leonard E.
Baron and Abe Katzman, also
Detroiters, were elected to the
board of directors.
The convention was told by
Rabbi Mordecai L. Brill, family
life counselor at the American
Foundation of Religion and Psy-
chiatry, New York, that the future
of Judaism depended on convinc-
ing alienated Jewish youth "that
the blueprint is to be found in
Judaism."
The federation refused to con-
demn the harassment tactics of
the Jewish Defense League or to
endorse the withdrawal of
American troops from Vietnam
"at the earliest possible time
consistent with their safety."
But it did approve resolutions
condemning Soviet anti-Semitism,
public support of private schools
and "formal prayer in any form
or guise" in American public
schools, and measures favoring
freedom of emigration for Soviet
Jews, continued American military
aid to Israel and aid to the dis-
advantaged of all religions.
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive
vice president of the Rabbinical
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