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. THE, 14TR9IT, .IEWISH NEWS
ADL Finds Prejudice Rampant in Schools, Among Educators
NEW YORK — "Pre-
judice is rampant" in the
schools and educators,
"more by default than by
design," according to a so-
ciological study made public
by the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
The findings, said Benja-
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of prejudice among the
younger generation and
have special significance for
reducing tensions in multi-
cultural schools."
Announced at ADL's
62nd annual meeting, at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the
findings included the fol-
lowing:
• Despite widespread
community conflict over
school desegregation, the
schools themselves are still
relying primarily on inter-
group contact "to somehow
solve the problem of preju-
diced attitudes."
• Years after the Su-
preme Court decision on
desegregating the schools,
there is still no effective ef-
fort to teach black and
white youngsters to get
along with each other.
• There is a "surprisingly
large" amount of teenage
hostility toward Jews and a
strong correlation between
prejudice and socio-eco-
nomic class.
• Students finish high
school with the same pre-
judices they had when the y
started; if there is an y
change, it is usually in th e
direction of increased socia 1
distance.
At another session it wa S
announced that a major at
tack on the problem of anti
Semitism in the arme d
forces has been undertake n
by the U.S Department o f
Defense "Race Relations
Institute" at Patrick Air
Force Base, Fla.
Col. Robert W. Dews, the
institute's director, cited
ADL for its "support and
cooperation" in developing
the comprehensive course
on anti-Semitism which has
been added to the institute's
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All but three of the sec-
tions of a 32-page resource
text, "Anti-Semitism,"
published by the institute,
consist of materials from
ADL publications. In ad-
dition, the ADL has pre-
pared a teachers guide and
course outline on Jews and
Judaism to be used begin-
ning in 1976.
The ADL also stated that
the strength of American
left and right wing extre-
mist movements — as indi-
cated by activities, member-
ship and ability to draw
media attention — is mea-
surably down.
A survey, based on
ADL's on-going monitor-
ing program, revealed that
although some extremist
groups managed to remain
stable during the past year
and still others showed
some gains, the general
picture is one of decline on
the far right "because the
American political main-
stream has become more
conservative"; on the far
left "because of detente
and because the movement
has failed to find a substi-
tute for the Vietnam issue
it used so effectively to
gain attention and adher-
ents."
The report was presented
by John L. Goldwater,
chairman of ADL's fact
finding committee.
Extremist movements
here, according to the re-
port, manifest anti-Israel
sentiment and "a quotient
of anti-Semitism."
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The League said that
radical left activities have
been diminished because
many of the things it has
traditionally favored have
already been adopted as
U.S. policy.
It was further pointed out
that the far left movement
here — consisting of a num-
ber of Marxist-Leninist or-
ganizations, all hostile to
Israel — has failed thus far
to mobilize mass opposition
to U.S. support for the sur-
vival of the Jewish state as a
substitute issue for the war
in Vietnam. One reason,
according to the League,
"may be that the public re-
cognizes the fact that the Is-
raeli situation and the one
in South Vietnam are to-
tally dissimilar."
Beit Berl Friends
Group Established
NEW YORK — At a pri-
vate luncheon attended by
25 Jewish community lead-
ers invited by Abba Eban,
former Israeli Foreign Min-
ister, an American Commit-
tee of Friends of Beit Berl
was formed under the chair-
manship of Jacob Stein, for-
mer chairman of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations.
Eban is chairman of the
board of trustees of Beit
Berl, the Workers' College
at Kfar Saba, Israel, named
for the late Berl Katznelson,
a founder of Histadrut.
AJCongress, UAHC Support
Physician Who Did Abortion
BOSTON — Eight civic
and religious organizations
have joined in a friend-of-
the-court brief calling on
the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts to reverse
the conviction last Feb. 15 of
Dr. Kenneth Edelin for
manslaughter in the death
of a fetus during the course
of a routine abortion.
The brief, drafted by Leo
Pfeffer of the American
Jewish Congress, argues
that the conviction violates
the principle of separation
of church and state as guar-
anteed by the First and
Fourteenth Amendments to
the United States Constitu-
tion.
Specifically, the eight or-
ganizations asserted that
the conviction is in direct
opposition to recent Su-
preme Court decisions out-
lawing anti-abortion stat-
utes, and that "the purpose
of the prosecution was to de-
ter abortions and thereby
advance the theological doc-
trine which forbids them
The brief was signed by
American Ethical Union,
American Humanist Asso-
tiation, American Jewish
Congress,
Board of
Church and Society of the
United Methodist Church,
Union of American He-
brew Congregations, Uni-
tarian Universalist Asso-
ciation and United Church
Board for Homeland Min-
istries.
Noting the "great tempta-
tion to resort to extra-con-
stitutional and unlawful
means to achieve de facto
what cannot be achieved de
jure," the brief states:
"The prosecution of a re-
putable physician using ac-
cepted medical procedure to
provide a woman with an
abortion which she volun-
tarily sought can be ex-
plained only as a response to
the Court which had ruled
that she was constitution-
ally entitled to it, and that
Israelis Kill Arab
Terrorists in Battle
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Four
Arab terrorists were killed
near Metullah, in the north-
ern part of the Galilee re-
gion, in a clash with Israeli
soldiers. There were no Is-
raeli casualties.
Military sources said the
terrorists infiltrated Israeli
territory from Lebanon and
had only gotten several
hundred yards into Israel
when Israeli forces spotted
them hiding in an apple
plantation.
the defendant herein was
entitled to perform it."
The brief also states:
"The primary effect of a
law which bars a medical
procedure accepted by
practically all of the pro-
fession except those reli-
giously motivated can
hardly be anything else
but the advancement of
religion . . . [Anti-abor-
tion laws) imposed upon
those who do not share this
view by the theology of
those who do.
"They criminalize women
who act according to their
own religious conscience
and their physicians who
perform procedures in ac-
cordance with accepted
medical practices and
standards."
Jew Believed Still
Alive in Iraq
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Re-
ports from Amsterdam that
Alexander Aharonson is
alive, contrary to an Iraqi
news agency announcement
last Wednesday that the
Dutch Jew was hanged in
Baghdad as an Israeli spy,
has raised the hopes of his
family in Holland and rela-
tives and friends in Israel.
The Netherlands Foreign
Ministry lodged a stiff pro-
test with Iraq following the
announcement of the hang-
ing and summoned the Iraqi
Ambassador to the Benelux
countries to The Hauge for
an accounting.
On Thursday, however,
the Iraqi Charge d'Affairs
in The Hague, Sayid Ali
Khadi, informed the For-
eign Ministry there that he
had received a cable from
Baghdad saying that Ahar-
onson was detained as a
"Zionist spy" but had not
been executed.
Aharonson, a male nurse
who survived the Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp
as a child, was providing
medical assistance to Kurds
in northern Iraq when he
was arrested by Iraqi police
last. March 24.
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