Israelis Seeking
Rescue of Jews
in Arab Lands

New Anti-Semitic
Trends: Threats
to Zionism
and Intellectuals

Editorials
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—A citizens committee for Jews in Arab lands has been set up under the chairmanship of
Supreme Court Judge Haim Cohn and will hold its founding meeting June 1 in Jerusalem. The aim of the committee is to
work for the rescue of Jews in Arab lands, to arouse Israeli and world public opinion to this task and to support such inter-
national public bodies as the International Committee for the Jews in Arab Lands, whose chairman is Alain Poher,
president of the French Senate.
Taking part in the Israeli citizens committee are public figures from all segments of the population including intel-
lectuals and businessmen. The committee hopes to enlist worldwide public support among statesmen, intellectuals, clergy-
men and youth for the struggle against the oppression of Jews in Arab countries and for guaranteeing these Jews basic
human rights—above all, the right to emigrate.
Judge Cohn has been active in the past on the international level in furthering human rights and in January 1970 took
part in the international congress held at Paris under the chairmanship of Poher.

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Commentary
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June 4, 1971

GOP Senate Leader Now Backs

Rogers; Assures Aid to Israel

S2,000,000 Additional
Day School Allocation
Meets Opposition in NY

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania believes the Nixon administration
is on the right track in its pursuit of a peace settlement in the Middle East. In an address at com-
mencement exercises at Dropsie University, Wednesday, the Republican Senate minority leader as-
sured Israel of continuous U.S. military and economic aid. But in an apparent shift in emphasis
from previous statements, he seemed to be endorsing the Rogers plan which, he stressed, was ad-
ministration policy.
He referred to the secretary of state's closed meeting in April with 67 senators of both parties,
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish all-day elementary and
a meeting which, he recalled, was requested by senators William Jackson, Jacob Javits, Abraham
high schools in New York State will receive more than
Ribicoff and himself to clarify American Mid East policy. At that meeting, Scott said in his Dropsie
$2,000,000 additional state aid from the new "Aid to Non-
speech, Rogers "gave us all a clear-cut, candid view that dispelled
Public Schools" bill introduced by Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
Meir-USSR
much of the misunderstanding and controversy that had arisen about
feller, according to Rabbi Moshe Sherer, executive presi-
the administration's Middle East policy."
dent of Agudat Israel of America.
Talks Denied
Scott continued: "I think it will be useful for me to mention some
Rabbi Sherer said that with this sum added to the
of the cardinal points which lie behind the efforts he (Rogers) has been
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
amount the yeshivot will receive from the 1970 Mandated
making to achieve a comprehensive peace settlement. Let me add that
Services Law, the Jewish all-day schools will receive
prime minister's office em-
though this has become known as the Rogers Plan, it is the policy of
$4,000,000 in state aid during the 1971-72 school year.
phatically denied Tuesday a
the administration spearheaded by the secretary of state."
The Rockefeller bill calls for $33,000,000 in grants to
press report that Premier
One of the cardinal points he attributed to the Rogers policy was
nonpublic schools as partial reimbursement for their ex-
Golda Meir met secretly with
that America's goal is a "real peace' that must incorporate effective
penses in providing secular services to children. The non-
security arrangements and 'international guarantees. Scott in the past
two Soviet officials at a re-
public schools will receive $27 a year per child in each
has been strongly critical of international guarantees as a substitute
mote
hunting last
lodge
in Fin-
elementary school and $72 a year per child in the high nish
Lapland
weekend.
for a real peace settlement.
schools. Those schools recognized by the federal govern-
The report Monday in a
(In his press conference on Tuesday night, President Nixon spoke
_ ment as serving a high concentration of students from very
Stockholm paper said; Mrs.
of an increasing war danger in the Middle East if new arms shipments
low-income families will receive an additional $54 per
Meir.who is currently visit-
student.
to the Arab nations will result from the 15-year treaty signed by the
ing Scandinayiah countries,
USSR with Egypt.)
The Committee for Public Education and Religious
left Stockholm hey- air Satur-
Liberty (PEARL) has called on the State Legislature to
Senator Scott said the U.S. was not advocating that Israel com-
day for Rovanienii La0and.
reject proposals for "an additional giveaway of $33,000,000
mit itself to withdrawal prior to a peace treaty or that it commit itself
In Oslo, Mrs.Meir, denying,—
to nonpublic schools." PEARL, a coalition of 30 civic,
to withdrawal prior to an agreement on security arrangements relating
_
the reported„pelliret-meetitig,
religious and educational groups, charged that Governor
to Sharm el Sheikh and the border zones. He felt sure that the parties
,
had
been'
said:
"I
wisti-At-,
Rockefeller and the Republican legislative leaders "have
to the conflict could reach such agreements and maintained that direct
beet
true.
I
warle::.
.
h
air'e
again shown their contempt to the democratic process" by
negotiations would have to be held at some stage in the process.
happY=
1: ■ oposing a parochiaid bill "that is to be rammed through
(Continued I on Page 9)
the legislature without exposure cf its terms."
(Related. Wry on Page 3)

Asocial, Exceedingly ,ti -Jewish, Altitudes
Reported in Study of Protestant Clergy

Pompidou Sees
Israel Jetliner
at Paris Air Show

A "silent majority" of Protestant clergymen are helping to perpetuate the status quo on social and political problems, according
to a comprehensive study made public by Seymour Graubard, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith.
The study, entitled "Wayward Shepherds: Prejudice and the Protestant Clergy," asserts that ministers are failing to use the power
the pulpit to redress grievances associated with prejudice, discrimination, povery, war, crime and other issues. It further reveals
,nat although Protestant clergy are much less anti-Semitic than their parishioners, they remain "a good deal more anti-Semitic than
they ought to be."
Prepared by a team of four behavioral scientists—Rodney Stark. Bruce D. Foster, Charles Y. Glock and Harold E. Quinley-
under a grant from the Anti-Defamation League, the work will be published by Harper and Row as the sixth volume in an ADL series,
"Patterns of American Prejudice," based on more than five years of research conducted for ADL by the University of California
[ Survey Research Center.
The research team used 1,580 clergymen of the nine largest Protestant denominations in California as their sample for the
, -
current work. They found that despite one of the most agonozing periods in American history, the average minister devoted only
'
,- ,, three sermons during a year to specific social and political problems.
Calling the silence "engimatic," they say that "it is as if there had been no Sermon on the Mount . . .
While 33 per cent of the Methodists and Episcopalians preached on controversial social and political topics five times or more
during a given year, only 8 per cent of the Southern Baptists did so. Conversely, only 10 per cent of the Methodists failed to give
even one such sermon while 56 per cent of the 'Missouri Lutherans, 52 per cent of the American Lutheran Church clergy and 42 per
cent of-the Southern Baptists found no occasion during the year to devote a sermon to such matters.
,
The sociologists point out further that many clergymen who do manage to take up a controversial topic from the pulpit do so
_without revealing their own moral or ethical positions. For example, while 44 per cent of the Missouri Lutherans said they had
preached on such a topic during the year. only 26 per cent said they had taken a stand. The same comparison among Southern
Baptists was 58 per cent and 47 per cent.
The general basis for ill will toward Jews is hostility to Judaism as a religion stemming from what the authors call unwaver-
ing commitment to "traditional" Christian teachings. These blame Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus and believe the Jews to be
beyond redemption unless they convert.
Noting that "clergymen are remarkably free of anti-Semitism which is not rooted in religious hostility," the study points out that
if "conceptions of contemporary Jews as unforgiven for the crucifixion and under a curse from God could be eliminated from Christian
consciousness," considerable progress toward eliminating anti-Semitism could be made. (Continued on Page 6)

PARIS (JTA) — President Georges
Pompidou of France visited the Israeli
pavilion May 27 after he officially opened
the International Air Show at Le Bourget
Airport.
The French leader was greeted by
Israel Ambassador Asher Ben Natan
and Alfred Schwimmer, director general
of Israel Airport Industries. On public
display abroad for the first time were
Israel's first home-built commercial jets,
the Jet Commander, an executive plane,
and the Arava. The latter is a short-take-
off-and-landing (STOL) plane adaptable
for either passenger or cargo service.
Pompidou said, "I see that you manu-
facture planes. -This is good." But plead-
ing weariness after a strenuous day
visiting exhibits, he declined an invita-
tion by Ben Natan to inspect the Israeli
jets more closely.
The two planes participated in a "fly-
past" at the air show on Saturday.
Israel's aircraft industry was honored
at a reception held in Ambassador Ben
Natan's residence. It was attended by
officials of tthe French Office of Aero-
nautical Material Exports and several
senior generals of France's air force.

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