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The Detroit Jewish News, 1976-05-07

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6 May 7, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Commerce Dept. Reverses Boycott Policies

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boycott of all who support
Israel "poses a dangerous
threat to the quality of cit-
izenship of American Jews
and, indeed, to all Ameri-
cans."
He warned that "If the
Arab states are permitted to
impose their anti-Jewish
and anti-Israel policies on
an American economy eager
for Arab trade, the very
principles of equality and
religious liberty which have
made our country great will
be gravely imperiled."
Hertzberg said that was the
reason President Ford pro-

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mulgated his order last No-
vember barring exporters
from taking any action that
discriminates against
American citizens on
grounds of race, religion,
sex or national origin.
Meanwhile, Rep. James
Corman (D-Wash.) intro-
duced a bill in the House
last week calling for the eli-
mination of tax benefits for
U.S. firms who participate
in the Arab boycott. He said
some 3,000 American firms
are believed to be cooperat-
ing in the boycott and those
doing so would lose their eli-
gibility for foreign tax

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Windsor MP Lashes Canada
for Helping the Arab Boycott

OTTAWA (JTA) — Herb
Gray, MP for Windsor, Ont.
and a former Minister of
Consumer Affairs, criti-
cized the Canadian govern-
ment for taking no action on
the Arab boycott of Israel
and its implications for
Canadians.
Gray, addressing the an-
nual policy conference of
the Canada-Israel Commit-
tee; recalled that Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau said in the House of
Commons last year that "I
think this type of practice
(boycott) is alien to every-
thing the government
stands for."
Gray cited an agreement
signed by Minister for Ex-
ternal Affairs Allan Mc-
Eachen with Saudi Arabia
on his recent Middle East
tour which is based on the
principle "each according to
its laws and regulations."
Gray asked, "Is that a tacit
recognition of Saudi Ara-
bia's boycott?"
The former Cabinet mem-
ber said he wanted the Ca-
nadian government to pub-
licly confirm, that any
takeover of Canadian 'prop-
erties application, particu-
larly one financed by petro-
dollars, should be checked
for any discriminatory in-
tention on the part of for-
eign investors.
He called on Trudeau to
reaffirm that "Arab funds
or any foreign funds are not
welcome here if they are to
be used in any way that is
discriminatory against the
people of Canada." That was
part of Trudeau's statement
to the House of Commons
last year.
A document released by
the Canada-Israel Commit-
tee stated that 140 Canadian
companies are on the Arab
League boycott list. Gray
said that the Export Devel-
opment Corp., a Canadian
government agency, has
been giving export insur-
ance, financing certain
transactions by Canadian
firms with Arab countries,
though it knew beforehand
that some of those transac-

tions included compliance
with the Arab boycott.
Joe Clarke, leader of the
opposition and president of
the Progressive-Conserva-
tive Party, declared at an-
other session of the confer-
ence that the friends of
Israel in Canada are entitled
to expect more support from
the non-Jewish community
against the Arab boycott.-
Clarke referred to the
Habitat Conference to be
held in Vancouver in June,
to which the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization has
been invited. He said, "We
are confronted with a Mos-
lem-Communist bloc in the
Middle East trying to frus-
trate efforts for peace" and
"should the Vancouver Hab-
itat Conference be turned
into an anti-Israel attack by
the Communist bloc and the
Arabs, we shall make the
government respond to such
an attack. Should the anti-
Israel bloc use the platform
in denying Israel's exist-
ence, our welcome will be
worn out and the majority
of Canadians share this
view with us."
Barney Danson, Minister
of Housing and Urban Af-
fairs, who is in charge of the
conference to which Canada
is serving as host, told the
conference that "the Cana-
dian government wants the
conference to deal exclu-
sively with the issues that
are on the agenda because
any politicizing-of this con-
ference will oblige the Cana-
dian government to take
steps.
Danson expressed hope
"that the PLO representa-
tives will contribute to the
progress of the Habitat Con-
ference and not disturb its
work." But he noted that
Canadian Jews are legiti-
mately concerned about the
PLO's presence. "We are
going to fight influences
which are wrong," he
pledged.
Chaim Herzog, Israel's
Ambassador to the United
Nations, also addressed the
meeting.

credit, tax deferral on for-
eign source income and
domestic international cor-
poration benefits for one tax
year if the bill becomes law.
The AJCongress pre-
sented a resolution requir-
ing Fruehauf Corp. to dis-
close any dealings with the
Arab boycott at the. Frue-
hauf stockholders meeting
yesterday afternoon in De-
troit's Pontchartrain Hotel.
The resolution was pre-
sented on behalf of two
New York Fruehauf stock-
holders who are AJCon-
gress members by Marian
Shifman, a member of the
national governing council
of the AJCongress who is a
past president °fits De-
troit Women's Division.
In response to the filing of
similar resolutions, 22 of
the country's largest corpo-
rations, including General
Motors, Scott Paper and
Xerox, have given written
assurances to the AJCon-
gress that they will refuse
to submit to Arab boycott
demands.
Votes have already been
taken on similar resolutions
at the meetings of Interna-
tional Harvester, Avco
Corp., American Cyanamid,
Bankers Trust, Chase Man-
hattan, E.G. & G., General
Electric, Gulf Oil and
Charter New York (Irving
Trust). The resolutions have
received more than five per-
cent of all votes cast at these
meetings.

In Washington last week, to submit various boycott
Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D-NY), compliance documents be-
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