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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
'NY Violence Hinders Cause of Soviet Jews'
LONDON — Soviet pris-
oner of conscience Dr. Ben-
jamin Levich said this week
that violence by militant
Jews in New York is not
helping his case or that of
thousands of other Soviet
citizens who want to leave
for Israel.
Dr. Levich said that
threats and abuse of Soviet
officials at the United Na-
tions might even hurt the
cause in Moscow.
"The struggle for human
rights should be based on
high humanitarian princi-
ples and worthy means.
Threats, blackmail and
shooting at innocent people
from behind corners cannot
be regarded as such by any-
one," Dr. Levich said.
Levich was an interna-
tionally renowned elec-
trochemist prior to 1972
when he lost his job after
applying for an exit visa.
Rabbi Meir Kahane, the
founder and leader of the
Jewish Defense League,
praised the "Jewish mili-
tants" who are attacking So-
viet diplomats and offices as
"Jewish patriots" who un-
derstand that detente is the
only leverage that Jews have
against the Soviet Union,
according to a statement by
Kahane in Jerusalem re-
leased here by one of his
representatives.
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said a kidnapping or assas-
sination of as-Soviet official
would destroy detente and
such an attack "simply can-
not be prevented." If the
Soviet Union wants detente
they will have to pay for it
in Jews, Kahane said.
Kahane strongly criti-
cized major Jewish "estab-
lishment" groups for attack-
ing the militants and
singled out the American
Jewish Congress which
passed a resolution last
week at its biennial conven-
tion calling for the arrest
and punishment of persons
responsible for shooting
into the Soviet Mission in
New York on April 2.
Meanwhile, seven mem-
bers of the JDL were ar-
rested by the police Mon-
day after they got onto the
roof of the Park East Syn-
agogue in Manhattan and
shouted slogans at the So-
viet Mission to the United
Nations across the street.
The JDL announced that
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it will defy a warning by UN
Ambassador William
Scranton that legal action
may be taken by U.S. au-
thorities against anti-Soviet
demonstrators who harass
or intimidate foreign mis-
sion employes.
At the same time, the
JDL said it has received
written assurances that the
American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) would act to
defend the JDL against any
action by Scranton affecting
the JDL's First Amendment
rights.
The JDL released the
texts of letters it has sent to
President Ford and Secre-
tary of State Henry A. Kis-
singer, appealing for "an
accelerated series of efforts
to win complete freedom of
emigration for Soviet Je-
wry."
Meanwhile, some 1,000
New York City youths
marched through the Flat-
bush section of Brooklyn
Monday in the third an-
nual 10-mile Passover
walkathon for Soviet Je-
wry. About $10,000 was
ruled as each of the parti-
cipants had sponsors who
pledged money for each
mile walked. The proceeds
will be sent to the families
of imprisoned Soviet Jews
and Soviet Jewish activ-
ists.
This year's Walkathon
focussed on the plight of
16-year-old Marina Ti-
emkin, who was kidnapped
by Soviet authorities after
she and her father, Alexan-
der Tiemkin, applied for an
exit visa.
In Washington, about
3,000 people gathered in a
cold, heavy rain on the El-
lipse opposite the White
House Sunday for a one-
hour inter-faith, inter-racial
demonstration on behalf of
Soviet Jews.
In a related develop-
ment, a group of leading
Soviet Jewish activists
has accused the Ford Ad-
ministration of "wor-
sening" the condition of
Soviet Jews by its outspo-
ken opposition to the Jack-
son-Vanik Amendment to
the Foreign Trade Act
which links U.S. trade
benefits to the USSR with
Soviet emigration policies.
According to. the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry,
57 activists from 11 Russian
cities issued a declaration
stating:
"It seems to us that state-
ments by some leading rep-
reSentatives of the Ameri-
can Administration that
support of Soviet Jews by
the American Congress
would lead to the worsening
Of their situation, were
among the most important
factors that made the Soviet
leadership confident that it
can, with impunity, con-
tinue repression and black-
mail intended to smother
emigration."
The activists rejected as
"far removed from reality,"
the argument that the
trade-emigration linkage is
harmful to them, the SSSJ
reported. Their declaration
added: "It is very difficult to
change our condition by one
specific action. But we think
that specific actions by the
U.S. Congress connected
with foreign trade forced
the Soviet government to
suspend its sinister plan to
smother Jewish emigration
using an education tax, and
in this way helped the emi-
gration of tens of thousands
of Jews."
In another development,
the SSSJ reported that So-
viet secret police agents
"abducted" 13-year-old Olga
Sakova from Moscow in "a
chilling reenactment of
Moscow teenager Marina
Tiemkin's kidnapping."
The SSSJ also reported
that prisoner of conscience
Anatoly Altman is threat-
ened with transfer to Rus-
sia's most notorious prison
and was put in solitary
confinement because he
had refused to work to pro-
test the withholding of
mail from Israel.
Another prisoner, Israel
Zalmanson, serving an
eight-year sentence imposed
at the first Leningrad hijack
trial in 1970, was recently
given two weeks in solitary
confinement for punching
person who called him
"Kike," the SSSJ said.
A new wave of propa-
ganda was unleashed
against Jewish activists in
Moscow in the form of an
article in the Soviet weekly
"New Times," implying that
activists are paid foreign
agents, the SSSJ reported.
The article titled "The Peo-
ple Who Have LostsTheir
Motherland," by V. Okhov-
etsky, attacks Jews . as
"sellers of living souls."
It specifically denounces
activists Vladimir Slepak
and Prof. Alexander Ler-
ner, who meet with visi-
tors from abroad and
teachers at the Moscow
Hebrew "ulpan," Zev
Shachnovsky and Mikhail
Tchlenov.
r`Tr.rz:
Shachnovsky and his
group of Moscow ulpan
teachers, have formed a net-
work of Hebrew classes in
cities around the USSR.
In Berkeley, Calif. it was
reported that Soviet Under-
'
ground Art Exhibit will of-
ficially open May 1 at the
Judah Magnes Museum.
The exhibit, sponsored
by the Bay Area Council
on Soviet Jewry, consists
of 40 photomurals of the
works of 12 Leningrad-
based Jewish artists. The
photo-murals are a docu-
mentary of Judaism as
seen through the eyes -
Soviet artists.
Their works were smug-
gled to the West and arrived
in the form of extensive film
coverage of an underground
exhibit which opened in
Leningrad in the one-bed-
room apartment of the
painter Evgeney Abezgaus,
the Council reported. All 12
artists represented in the
exhibit are graduates from
the finest art institutes in
the Soviet Union.
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