THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20 May 14, 1976
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Druze, the non-Arab
Moslem sect loyal to Israel,
have established a Zionist
group of their own and will
cooperate __with the Zionist
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Council of Israel, it was
announced by council chair-
man Arye Zimouki.
The council is an affiliate
of the World Zionist Organi-
zation which conducts pro-
grams in Zionism at schools
and universities in Israel.
Zimouki said that fol-
lowing a meeting he had
with Yosef Nasser A-Din,
secretary of the Druze
group, it was agreed that
Druze lecturers would ad-
dress Israeli youths,
adults, children and immi-
grants to explain the
Druze struggle for equal
rights and to state their
desire to live peacefully
with the Jewish commu-
nity.
Zimouki reported that
A-Din explained that his
group accepts Israel's Law
of Return and recognizes
the rights of the Jewish peo-
ple in Israel.
Czechs Continue
Israel Attacks
LONDON — Expecta-
tions that the Czech media
would tone down on their
lead in anti-Israel propa-
ganda among East Euro-
pean countries once the
Brussels conference on So-
viet Jewry was over have
been invalidated in recent
weeks by virulent attacks on
the state of Israel and Zion-
ism in a number of broad-
casts from the overseas
services of Prague radio,
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Soviet Jewish Activists Face Charge
of Parasitism If Not Employed Soon
LONDON (JTA) —
Twenty of the most active
would-be emigrants to Is-
rael in Moscow have been
warned by the KGB that
they will be liable to prose-
cution on charges of parasi-
tism unless they find jobs
within a month.
In Tel Aviv, Rabbi Meir
Kahane, founder of the Jew-
ish Defense League, warned
today that Jewish militants
in the U.S. may kidnap So-
viet diplomats as part of a
stepped-up campaign on
behalf of Soviet Jewry.
Kahane's threats were
endorsed by two prominent
Soviet Jewish emigres who
appeared at the press con-
ference with him, Silva Zal-
manson and Alexander Ti-
emkin. Miss Zalmanson said
she supported Kahane's
group because "at least they
do something." Tiemkin
said "This is the only lan-
guage the Russians can un-
derstand."
Meanwhile, the Soviet
Union delivered a strong
protest to the United
States Tuesday over the
attacks by "Zionist ele-
ments" on Soviet person-
nel and property in New
York. The Soviets have
protested several bomb-
ings and a shot that was
fired at the Soviet's UN
mission in recent weeks.
Newsweek magazine re-
ported that a federal grand
jury will soon investigate
the anti-Soviet incidents,
and the possible overlap of
the Jewish Defense League
with the Jewish Armed Re-
sistance group which has
been taking credit for the
violence.
In Jerusalem, World
Zionist Organization chair-
man Yosef Almogi accused
the Soviet authorities of
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deliberately acting to inflate
the "drop out" rate of Soviet
Jewish emigrants who leave
the Soviet Union but do not
settle in Israel. Almogi al-
leged that the Kremlin pur-
posely grants a high propor-
tion of visas to academics
and professional people —
many of them from Odessa
— while cutting back on vi-
sas to less highly trained
Jews from Georgia, who are
more likely to go to Israel
because they are more eas-
ily absorbed there.
This was Almogi's explan-
ation for the. current 60 per-
cent "dropout rate" of Soviet
Jews reaching Vienna. '
In a related develop-
ment, Soviet Jewish activ-
ists in Kishinev, in the
southern Soviet republic of
Moldavia, declared a hun-
ger strike May 1 and 2 in
protest of a new Soviet
harassment technique
which forces applicants to
give up their apartments
before they can fill out an
application for a visa to Is-
rael, it was reported by the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry.
"If a visa is denied," the
letter addressed to United
Nations Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim pointed out,
"which is the usual proce-
dure of the Soviet govern-
ment, the applying family is
left not only homeless, but
without a shelter from the
elements."
Meanwhile, the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
reported that Jewish activ-
ists also staged hunger
strikes in Riga, Leningrad,
Tallin and Vilnius on Soli-
darity Day for exit visas to
Israel.
It also was reported that
top Moscow activist, Dr.
Victor Brailovsky has re-
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French Senate President Asks
Aid for Oppressed Syria Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
President of the French
Senate, Alain Poher, told
American Jewish leaders,
that "the time has come to
mobilize American public
opinion on behalf of Syrian
Jewry."'
Poher, chairman of the
International Conference
for the Rescue of Jews in
Arab States, said that his
10-day U.S. visit will be de-
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model camp for boys and
girls 8 to 13 years of age,
Camp Judea-Sprout Lake,
has been added to the six
camps sponsored by Has-
hachar, the Hadassah youth
movement and registration
is now open, according to
Buddy Goldzimer, Hadas-
sah camp chairman.
The camp at Verbank,
N.Y. is the summer expres-
sion of the Hashachar phi-
losophy in which awareness
of the Jewish heritage is
stimulated through a varied
and creative proigram,!he
said.
voted to the issue of Syrian
Jews.
Poher, who addressed the
Jewish leaders at a recep-
tion held by the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions, said that he is under-
taking this campaign be-
cause the situation of
Syrian Jews has not im-
proved since the June 1967
war, when their freedom of
movement in Syria was re-
stricted and their right to
leave the country was ig-
nored.
Poher said that he had
"some hopes" that Syria's
remaining 5,000 Jews will
be permitted to emigrate.
He said he based his hopes
on a meeting he had re-
cently with Assad, "but
nothing has happened
yet," he added.
Poher is not Jewish.
According to Poher, his
task is to convince the Syr-
ian government that it is in
its own interests to permit
Jews to leave. Under inter-
national pressure, Syria will
find it "impossible to re-
main deaf to your requests.
We , must do everything.to
liberate them," he said.
ceived permission to leave
for Israel but his wife has
again been refused, the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry reported.
In San Francisco, the
Bay Area Council on So-
viet Jewry has planted
four trees in Israel in
memory of Col. Yefim
Davidovich who died in
Minsk on April 24 of a
heart attack. Soviet Jew-
ish activists from Kiev
and other cities were due
to gather this week to me-
morialize Col. Davidovich.
Col. Lev Osvischer, a close
friend of Davidovich who
also has been subjected to
constant harassment, is to
lead the services.
Groups Protest
Nazis in U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Forty young Jews marked
Israel's Independence Day
May 5 by demonstrating for
two hours in front of the
Immigration and Naturali-
zation Service's New York
Office demanding the de-
portation from the U.S. of
Nazis who murdered Jews
and other innocent civilians
during World War II.
The march also marked
the 31st anniversary of the
liberation of the Nazi death
camps by Allied troops.
Ten of the demonstrators
handcuffed themselves to-
gether in a sit-down demon-
stration in front of the INS
building as three others met
inside with INS officials.
The demonstrators, mem-
bers of Concerned Jewish
Youth, Betar, Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
and Survivors of the Riga
Ghetto, charged that the
INS "has deliberately
stalled the investigation of
about 100 Nazi criminals
although there is enough
evidence to deport many of
them."
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Nazi Crime Data
Sought in Detroit
The United States De-
partment of Justice, Immi-
gration and Naturalization
Service in Detroit is seeking
information on war crimes
during World War II in Eu-
rope in connection with an
investigation of alleged war
criminals living in the U.S..
Areas being investigated
are: Village of Cherovki,
Ovruch District (formerly
Slovechansky), Zhytomir
Region, Ukraine (now
USSR), Village of Prybytky
(former Slovechansky dis-
trict), Village of Vozeljakov
(former Slovechansky dis-
trict) and Village of Brusi-
loy, Zhytomir Region.
The Immigration Service
is particularly interested in
persons who have knowl-
edge of the police officials in
these areas between 1940
and 1944.
Anyone with personal
knowledge or who knows
otherpersons who may have
knowledge of any crimes in
these areas should contact
investigators Thomas
Keenan or. Walter Z:iq-nA15,_
226-3270.