THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
President, Congress Hit UN Stance
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tee's resolution it will be
man rights and fundamen- backing a negative resolu-
tal freedoms for all without tion and the day will come
discrimination as to race, when many of its sup_port-
ers will regret backing it
sex, language or religion."
The joint resolution and just like other dis-
charges that "such pur- torted resolutions of the
poses are threatened with general assembly, this too
being subverted" by the will end up in the garbage
resolution adopted in the heap of history."
Allon added that Israel
Third Committee which
"wrongfully associates and the Jewish people
and equates Zionism with should not underestimate
racism and racial discrim- the intentions behind the
ination." In that connec- , besmirching of Zionism.
Joining an anti-Zionist res-
tion, the resolution noted
that the U.S. representa- olution means joining anti-
tive to the Third Commit- Semitism," Allon said.
A resolution condemning
tee, declared that its ac-
tion "under the guise of a the UN action was also
prograih to eliminate rac- adopted by the Jewish
ism" was actually "offs- Agency Board of Governors
cially endorsing anti-Sem- and the Zionist Executive
itism, one of the oldest and plenary. It called on Zionist
most virulent forms of rac- and Jewish organizations all
ism known to human his- over the world to demon-
strate their appreciation to
tory."
and Arab are free and
equal being castigated,
hour in, hour out, by coun-
tries whose regimes prac-
tice racism, incongruate
racism in their laws and
their daily practice. Does
it not beg the question?
"Why not examine the
racism practiced in so many
countries who have been
speaking so profusely? Why
pick on a small Jewish
State? I suspect because it is
Jewish and small. It doesn't
surprise me . . . because we
are a people who have lived
with this form of discrimi-
nation, anti-Semitism for
centuries.
"How dare you talk of
racism to us, we who suf-
fered more than any other
nation in the world from
racist theories and prac-
tices, a nation which has
suffered the most terrifying
• The five co-sponsors in those countries that voted holocaust in the history of
the House are Reps. Thomas against the Third Commit- mankind. For centuries we
O'Neil (D-Mass.) and John tee draft and to muster all have suffered from racism,
McFall (D-Calif.) majority of their resources to con- we suffer today from racism
leader and majority whip vince UN delegations to sup- in a number of countries
respectively; Reps. John port Zionism "as the libera- including from Arab racism
Rhodes (R-Ariz.) and Robert tion movement of the as practiced in so many of
the sponsor countries.
H. Michel (R-Ill.) the minor- Jewish people.
"The sponsors have the ef-
Leonard Garment, a
it leader and whip, and
Rep. John Anderson (R-Ill.), member of the U.S. dele- frontry to talk of racism. It
chairman of the Republican gation to the UN, speaking lies not in your mouths. You
before the vote, called the have degraded this world or-
House conference.
Other prim'e movers be- draft resolution "ob- ganization by introducing
hind the resolution in the scene," a "supreme act of this anti-Semitic element
House included Reps. Sid- deceit," and "one of the into the world today, and in
ney Yates (D-Ill.); Jonathan most grievous errors," in so doing you will destroy it
Bingham (D-NY); Don the 30-year existence of the ultimately. My delegation
regrets its inability to vote
Fraser (D-Minn.); and Wil- world body.
The vote for the draft res- in favor of this resolution
liam Broomfield (R-Mich.)
In the Senate, the imme- olution-70 in favor, 29 op- because it is linked . . . to a
diate co-sponsors were Re- posed, 27 abstaining and 16 wicked and pernicious anti-
publican minority leader absent—came after heated Semitic resolution.
"The sponsors have by
Hugh Scott of Pennsyl- and prolonged discussion in
vania; Jacob K. Javits (R- the Third Committee, and their action in introducing
NY), William Brock (R- after the U.S. and the nine an extraneous irrelevant
Tenn.); and Richard Stone members of the European matter here contrived to
Common Market warned destroy a consensus on the
(D-Fla.)
issue of racism and indeed
Broomfield said, "The they would vote against it.
The vote also came after to endanger the entire
fact that this action, which
purports to eliminate rac- the committee had overrid- Decade for Action. There-
ism, actually endorses one den a request by two Black fore, we shall vote against
of the oldest forms of rac- African countries—Sierra the entire Item in all its
ism, shows it is purely a pol- Leone and Zambia—to post- various resolutions . . .
"This is a_sad day for the
itical ploy of Israel's ene- pone until next year consid-
United Nations. The Jewish
mies to build up sentiment eration of the resolution.
against her. -
Israeli Ambassador people will not forget this
"Certainly such action Chaim Herzog's denuncia- scene nor this vote. We are a
challenges the viability and tion of the countries sup- small people with a proud
intentions of the UN as a porting the draft resolution history. We have lived
peace-seeking organiza- had a marked impact and through much in our his-
tion."
that there was a shocked sil- tory. We have survived all
In similar, but angrier ence at the conclusion of his our oppressors and enemies
fashion, Israel's Knesset statement. Daniel Moyni- over the centuries. We shall
condemned the anti-Zionist han, the American Ambas- survive this shameful exhi-
resolution and also urged its sador, walked from his seat bition.
defeat in the Assembly's to embrace him just after
"But we the Jewish people
plenary. The Knesset ex- the vote took place. But shall not forget. We shall
pressed appreciation to the many delegates applauded not forget those who spoke
29 nations which voted the vote.
up for decency and civiliza-
against the draft.
Jewish sources in New tion and I thank the delega-
A Knesset resolutiOn York criticized the New tions who have expressed
adopted after a debate Mon- York Times for its total themselves against this per-
day reaffirmed that Zion- omission Saturday of Her- nicious resolution. We shall
ism is the movement for the zog's statement, particu- not forget those who voted
reconstruction and libera- larly since the Syrian dele- to attack our religion and
tion of the Jewish people.
gate was quoted at length. our faith. We shall never
Only the four-member The Times,on Sunday de- forget."
pro-Moscow Rakah com- voted one sentence to Her-
Garment told the com-
munist faction voted against zog's statement.
mittee
that, under the pre-
the Knesset resolution. The
Herzog told the delegates: text of fighting racism, the
five-member Aguda bloc
"We have listened to the UN was "at the point of offi-
was absent.
most
unbelievable non- cially endorsing anti-Semi-
During the Knesset dis-
sense
on
the issue of Zion- tism, one of the oldest and
cussion, Foreign Minister ism and from
whom? From most virulent forms of rac-
Yigal Allon did not rule out
who are the ar- ism known in human his-
the possibility that the Gen- countries
eral Assembly plenary chtypes of racism. I ask tory."
He added "we must also
might adopt the resolution you, does it not beg the
"perhaps even at a worse question. Here is a small issue a warning — this reso-
country three million in lution places the work of the
balance of votes."
population, a free demo- United Nations in jeop-
He observed, however, cratic country, which can ardy." He described Zionism
that "if the General As- be visited by anybody, in as a movement seeking to
sembly adopts the commit- which all citizens Jewish. preserve "the small remnant
-
MOVIE GUIDE
of the Jewish people that
survived the horrors of ra-
cial holocaust."
Garment said the draft
would encourage anti-
Semitism and group hos-
tility and would therefore
prevent the United States
from cooperating with
other UN members in a
10-year program to combat
racism. He said the deci-
sion would have far-reach-
ing consequences because
the draft involved the
"moral authority" that he
said was the UN's "only
ultimate claim" for sup-
port.
Moynihan
expressed
"profound gratification" for
the support Israel received
from the nations opposition
the draft resolution and in-
dicated that the African
program for a 1978 confer-
ence_ and "action plan"
against racial discrimina-
tion would suffer, at least as
far as the U.S. and Western
participation and possible
funding is concerned.
Some Western diplomats
expressed concern after the
. vote was taken that the ac-
tion would damage U.S.
support for the UN.
At the same time, U.S. of-
ficials were sharply critical
of Latin American countries
that lined up with the Arab
and Communist powers.
One unnamed high offi-
cial of the U.S. Mission
flatly accused Chile of sell-
ing its vote to the Arabs in
exchange for Arab support
when the issue of alleged
torture and political repres-
sion in Chile - comes up be-
fore the General Assembly.
Political circles in Israel
expressed a measure of
satisfaction at what was in
effect the first evidence of
a fissure in the A-rab-Afri-
can lineup since the Yom
Kippur War.
With two major African
states opposing the resolu-
tion and several others ab-
staining, the Arabs could be
said to have suffered a tacti-
cal _defeat in the Third
World bloc, the circles said.
Zionist and Jewish organ-
izations throughout the
world denounced the resolu-
tion, including a group of 27
Russian Jews in Moscow
who sent a telegram to Sec-
retary General Kurt Wal-
dheim saying the action
undermined "people's faith
in the institution of the
United Nations."
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