Aliya LaRegel Lifts Israel Noted Historian Honored The eminent American Jewish archivist, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, is being honored by the U.S. Jewish community for a life-time of historical and archival research on the occasion of his 80th birthday. His many contributions to Jewish historical scholarship includes a lengthy list of volumes on a multitude of Jewish topics. The eminent archivist's role in American Jewry, along with another in a series of Bicentennial features written by him detailing the role of Jews in America's struggle for independence, appear on Page 48. The Socialist Betrayal of Israel: The Moses Hess Warning and Prophecies Materialize Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXVIII, No. 23 . to 2. N T LET lim0 41 S GT The symbol at left with the slogan, "Arise Ye and Let Us Go Up to Zion," has been adopted as the Israel trade mark of a new campaign for Aliya LaRegel, Jewish solidarity pilgrimage, to express U.S. Jewry's soli- darity with Israel. 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Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c The Media and Political Dissectors The Year of Solidarity Editorials Page 4 February 13, 1976 Staged Soviet Press Conference Is Labeled a Propoganda Device Anti-Israel Propaganda in Congressional Record WASHINGTON (JTA) — An article in the February issue of Read- ers Digest alleging that Congress was "wrecking" the Administration's foreign policy, in some instances due to the influence of "a powerful lobby, that of Jewish Americans," was inserted into the Congressional Record Feb. 5 by Senate deputy minority leader Robert P. Griffin (R- Mich.). In presenting it to Congress, Griffin observed that it was "in- teresting and provocative" and "ought to be read by every Senator and Congressman." The article, by Prof. William E. Griffith, claimed that "of all the examples of unwise interference by Congress in foreign policy, the most dangerous is the unconditional support that Congress has habitually insisted we give to the policies of Israel. In so doing, it has disregarded not only the legitimate interests of the Arabs, but America's own interests as well." Griffith was identified by Read- ers Digest as a political science professor at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, of diplomatic history at the Fletcher School of Law and of diplomacy at Tufts University. Griffith cited.as an example of alleged Congressional "bias" toward Israel the opposition of the sale of a "Hawk" anti-aircraft missile sys- tem to Jordan last year. He charged that Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) and Rep. Jonathan Bingham (D-NY) "mustered enough opposeition to the sale so that the Administration had to postpone consideration of the proposal." He noted that "a compromise of sorts" had since been reached "on their deployment and use imposed at the demand of pro- Israeli Congressional forces." Griffith asserted that the U.S. "must make clear by deeds as well as words, our commitment to her (Israel's) survival and our moral and political outrage at such Arab maneuvers as the recent UN General Assembly vote that equated Zionism with racism" because "if we don't, (Continued on Page 10) BRUSSELS (JTA) — Organizers of the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry, scheduled to open Tuesday, charged that a Moscow press conference last Friday featuring seven Jewish emigres who had returned from Israel was a "transparent propaganda device that will deceive neither the Jews of the USSR nor the millions of Christians around the world who support the Soviet Jewish struggle." (As the Jewish News went to press, the Soviet press agency Novosti announced plans to hold a similar press conference in Brussels yesterday featuring former Soviet citizens who had emi- grated to Israel and decided to return.) The elaborate news conference in Moscow organized by the Soviet Foreign Ministry and Novosti, a feature press agency, was held just 11 days before the Brussels assembly on Soviet Jewry was scheduled to begin. Some of the Jews speaking at the Moscow conference read from prepared statements and said that Israel is a racist state. Vsevolod N. Sofinsky, chief of the Foreign Ministry's press department who conducted the conference, asserted that 90 percent of Soviet Jews abroad wanted to return to the Soviet Union. David Susskind, chairman of the Brussels secretariat, said that of more than 100,000 Soviet Jews who had emigrated to Israel since 1970 only 45 had returned to the USSR. He quoted a report on the situation of Soviet Jews adopted by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe Jan. 29, which said: "Considering the fact that most of the 45 have been since their return, used by the Soviet government in its campaign against emigration and that, moreover, some of them had spent only a few weeks in Israel, it might be supposed that these people were, from the outset, immigrants 'with a mission.' " Susskind commented, "The problem does not lie in the unwillingness of the Jews to emigrate but rather in the Kremlin's refusal to let Jews out and in its harassment and intimidation of Jews who apply to leave." He said that Soviet authorities had cut back sharply in the number of exit visas granted to Jews — from 35,000 in 1973 to 20,000 in 1974 to 12,000 in 1975. Currently, Susskind noted, there was a backlog inside the USSR of about 160,000 Jews who had begun the emigration process by requesting family reunification from relatives in Israel. "Soviet Jews who apply to emigrate face public vilification, dismissal from their jobs, expulsion from universities, enforced military conscription, arrest, trial and imprisonment," Susskind said. (Continued on Page 8) New York's Official Protest: Re-Name UN Plaza 'Zion Square' tion and of affirming support of Israel. Jack M. Elkin, chairman of the New York Metro- NEW YORK (JTA) — A public hearing last week by a City Council committee to politan Council of the American Jewish Congress, said that "Zion Square will rename a street across from the United Nations as Zion Square drew nearly 20 persons demonstrate that the people of the City of New York repudiate and reject the UN's con- speaking in its favor and only two against. The Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs demnation (of Zionism)." He said the creation of a Zion Square in New York will be the .:',ommittee, which deals with street name changes, voted 10-0 with one abstention to answer to the Palestine Liberation Organization's terrorist bombing of Jerusalem's Zion approve the change. Approval by the full City Council is expected since Council President Paul O'Dwyer and 41 of its 43 members have endorsed it. Square last fall. Norman Kaish, a Queens resident, said that he would provide all Councilman Henry J. Stern of Manhattan, who introduced the mea- the money needed for the changeover so there could be no claim that it sure last November after the United Nations adopted the resolution was costing the city money during a time of financial crisis. equating Zionism with racism, last Thursday moved that Zion Square The only opponents to the measure were Dr. T. M. Mehdi, secretary be located on the west side of First Avenue between 42nd and 43rd general of the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations, and Alfred Streets in front of the Isaiah Wall. He changed the location from his M. Lilienthal, chairman of the American Council on the Middle East. original designation three blocks north after the New York City Com- Mehdi called the Council's proposed action an "emotional reaction" mission for the United Nations had objected, citing among the reasons 45th which was not only "childish" but "also obscene." He said if the Council goes that two major firms would have to change their stationery. through with the plan the southwest corner of First Avenue and 44th Street Mrs. Frances Loeb, New York City Commissioner for the UN, said she should be named Palestine Liberation Organization or Palestine Square be- approved the change and that it also had the endorsement of Daniel P. Moy- cause if peace comes to the Mideast it must come through talks between nihan, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN. AiiT E Rs/ Israel and the Palestinians. Stern said the naming of the street as Zion Square was an "affirmation Lilienthal, a long-time opponent of Israel and formerly connected with of New Yorkers' respect for the aspirations of the Jewish people for a na- the American Council for Judaism, accused the City Council of declaring tional homeland." Councilman Walter Ward of Queens, chairman of the war on the UN, the Arab states and the Third World by its action. committee, said that "speaking as a non-Jew, when you attack Israel you PROPOSED ZION PLAZ He accused the U.S. of subordinating its foreign policy for domestic attack all of us." interests and said that when the American people realize the cost of U.S. Speakers representing Jewish organizations and themselves as individ- (Continued on Page 10) uals applauded the action as a means of answering the anti-Zionist resolu :;