Friday September 3, 1976 5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Failure to React Endangers Latin Jewish Community
from indiscriminate per-
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Jews who are under fire secution and reprisals.
they
Furthermore,
from local regimes for ex-
pressing critical views note, while dissidents
who happen to be Jewish
about repressive mea-
sures and the abrogation are not singled out as
of civil liberties. Jews, the propaganda
- Furthermore, these mills of the regimes and
representatives maintain their ,"unofficial" death
a total silence when an squads seek to implant in
individual Jew is singled the minds of the public
out by the regime as a dis- _ that there is a link bet-
ident and is persecuted ween dissident and Jew.
or arrested for his views. American Jewish ex:
American Jewish ex- perts on Latin America
perts on Latin American say when Catholics or
affairs see this situation Protestants' are singled
as being especially preva- out as dissidents and-
lent in Argentina, Brazil persecuted or arrested,
and- Chile. there are civil-liberties
The silence regarding defense groups which
dissident Jews is not come to their aid by issu-
necessarily a result of in- ing public proclamations.
difference to the plight of What is disturbing, to
the individual. Rather, it is the American Jewish
an effort born of anxiety to spokesmen is that a
keep the community as a number' of Jewish com-
whole free of dissident- munal leaders in Latin
taint and - thereby free America shun the dissi-
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"Not really , Jewish. - to
buttress this contention,
they cite the lack of any
connection on the part of
the dissident to any com-
munal organization and
the fact that he or she
never really spoke Out or
acted in public as a Jew.
What follows is that the
person ceases to be the
concern of the official
Jewish community. Their
plight and that of their
families, is minimized or
even ignored and not
given any publicity that
would help focus the at-
tention of world Jewry on
this situation.
The tragedy, it is
pointed out, aside from
the personal element, is
that there may be more
Jews in these countries
who are missing ab-
ducted, tortured, impris-
oned or killed — without
anyone abroad knowing
about it until it is too late
to do an,iting to save this
person because of the si-
lence of the Jewish com-
munity.
American Jewish ex-
perts in Latin American
affairs cite such cases as
that of Vladimir Herzog,
The Brazilian journalist
who was found dead in his
jail cell, the disappearance.
in Chile of David Silber-
man who was a high offi-
cial in the government of
Salvador Allende,, and of
Diana Aaron, Luis Guen-
delman and Juan Carlos
Perelman, and the abduc-
• tion . and disappearance in
Argentina of family mem-'
hers of Juan Gelman, a
well known poet and jour-
nalist, and Raymundo
Glazer, an Argentine film
maker.
In the case of Herzog,
some 8,000 persons of all
faiths attended an ecu-
menical memorial service
in Sao Paulo last
November. His 'death in
October sparked massive
indignation and dem- included — now. It is
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ing Zionism with racism,
Christian clergy.
But the Jewish com- Jews declared in unison
munity leadership main- that they were all
tained an official silence. Zionists.
Perhaps now is the time
The irony, it is pointed
out, is that some of these N for Latin American Jews
dissidents were in the to say in unison, we are all
past, under different cir- Jews.
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indiscriminately bomb-
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stores and homes owned
by Jews and offices of
prominent physicians
and -psychiatrists are
daubed with swastikas
and anti-Semitic slogans.
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YES—to the Jewish National Fund
cally in Brazil does not
limit itself to merely sing-
JNF land supports the whole Israel
ling out dissident Jews.
econ– omy—it grows Israftl's food —
The only course ) of ac-
edu-
religious,
Israel's
stand
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cational and welfare institutions.
the- Jewish communities
A bequest to the JNF is a bequest
of Latin America to de-
fend all Jews — dissidents
to the entire Jewish people, linking
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the name of the Testator with Israel
Bar Association Reverses Its
in perpetuity.
Stand on- UN Genocide Treaty
- WASHINGTON (JTA)
— The American Bar As-
sociation publicly re-
versed itself and testified
in favor of the United Na-
tions Genocide Treaty.
But proponents of the
convention that has been
before the U.S. Senate for
27 years are not disposed
to test their strength in
the current session of
Congress.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits,
(R-N.Y.), a prime mover
for the, convention, told
the House international
relations subcommittee
on future foreign policy
that he believed the Bar's
approval indicates the
proponents are now
within two or three votes
of a two-third Senate
majority required to
ratify it.
The Bar's house of dele-
gates last February
adopted a resolution
favoring the accession of
the U.S. to the convention
on the prevention and
punishment of the crime of
genocide.
, Prof. John Norton
Moore, of the Bar's coun-
cil on the section of inter-
national law, publicly
presented the report for
the first time to Congress,
submitting it to the
House subcommittee
headed by Rep. Lester
Wolff (D-N.Y.). Wolff
pointed out that the Bar
had testified against the
convention in 1974.
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