THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 15, 1976 15
ADL Congressional Testimony Reveals Argentinian Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Bnai Brith's Anti-
Defamation League has
advised a Congressional
body that its independent
monitoring has revealed
"record levels of anti-
Semitism - • in Argentina
• and "an organized cam-
paign designed to dis-
credit and intimidate the
Tews" of that country.
Burton S. Levinson,
chairman of the ADL's
Latin American affairs
committee, offered that
testimony before the
House International Re-
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committee on interna-
tional organizations. .
Levinson said his
agency felt the "respon-
sibility to speak, even if
unasked by the Jews of
Argentina. - He noted
that there have been at
least 50 incidents of vio-
lence, terror, bombings,
murder and abduction
during the past 128
months aimed against
Jews or Jewish institu-
tions in Argentina.
He claimed that "a mas-
sive propaganda effort"
was launched abelt March
1975 to persuade the
Argentine people "that
Jews are a threat to the
economic, social and polit-
ical life of the country."
Levinson said the cam-
paign included reviving
the notorious "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion"
forgery and the spurious
allegation that Jews
planned to establish a
separate state in part of
Argentina.
He quoted "an' inflam-
matory poem" published
in the Argentine hate
magazine, El Caudillo,
which, he said, was a
clear-cut call for physical
violence against Jews.
Levinson told the sub-
committee that the ADL
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had raised these matters
at a recent "cordial and
constructive meeting''
with the Argentine Am-
bassador to the U.S., Ar-
naldo T. Musich.
He noted that shortly
after the meeting, the
Argentine government
took "a sigtiificant first
step" by closing down
Editorial Milicia, a pub-
lishing house that pro-
duced anti-Semitic period-
icals and was the principal
source of Nazi books in
Argentina.
Meanwhile, according
to reports from Buenos
Aires, the ADL and
others were angrily de-
nounced by the morning
newspaper Prensa Libre
for interfering in Argen-
tina's internal affairs and
making unfounded
charges that Argentine
Jews suffered persecu-
tion.
The newspaper, .de-
scribed as a small circula-
tion daily, named Levin-
son and Father James
Weeks, a representative
of the United States
Catholic Conference, who
also testified on conditons
in Argentina before the
House subcommittee.
Prensa Libre de-
manded that the Bnai
Brith ADL be declared
"non grata" in Argentina
and that all of its ac-
tivities in that country be
suspended.
"Burton
Levinson
stated that 400-500,000
Jews living in Argentina
are the objects of an in-
creasing anti-Semitic
campaign . . . Those who
live here know exactly that
it is not true that in Argen-
tina anybody is persecuted
for his religious ideas and
even less the Jewish com-
munity, which always has
received equal treatment
given to all Argentines,
and has received all man-
ner of dignities and func-
tions, like the rest of the
citizenry," Prensa Libre
stated.
It declared that the
U.S. House of Represen-
tatives "has no right to
patronize any investiga-
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NEW YORK — The
New York State Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene
makes special arrange-
ments for patients at
state institutions who re-
quest kosher food, accord-
ing to Menachem M.
Shayovich, special assis-
tant to Gov. Hugh Carey.
Dr. Bernard. Frysh-
man, chairman of the
Commission on Legisla-
tion and Civic Action of
Agudath Israel of
America, requested
clarification from the
governor's office and Dr.
Lawrence Kolb, Commis-
sioner of Mental Hygiene,
on arrangements for pa-
tients who wish to exer-
cise their religion in men-
tal institutions.
According to Shayo-
vich, kosher food is
provided for "any resi-
dent whose physician or
treatment team prescribe
such a diet," and the gov-
ernor's office also alluded
to special arrangements
made for Jewish holidays.
tion against our country
and even less regarding
human rights."
Meanwhile, the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee
expressed gratification at
a "productive meeting"
between AJCom mittee
leaders and Argentinian
statesmen during which -
the Argentinians voiced
strong opposition to re-
cent anti-Semitic man-
ifestations in their coun-
try and promised vigor-
ous countermeasures.
Both Rear Admiral
Cesar Augusto Guzzetti,
Argentine Foreign
Minister, Carlos Ortiz de
Rosas, the Argentine
Ambassador to the Un-
ited Nations, also re-
jected completely recent
attempts in the United
Nations to link Zionism
with racism, an AJCom-
mittee spokesman an-
nounced, and "vehe-
mently condemned -
inter-national terrorism.
Richard Maass, Chair-
man of AJC's board of
governors, declared that
he and the other American
Jewish Committee leaders
who met with the Argenti-
nians welcomed their
statements that Argentina
would make a determined
effort to preserve civic
rights while trying to stab-
lize conditions in their
country.
The Argentinans felt
that to some extent
Argentina had been sing-
led out for citicism unfar-
ily, he reported.
Maass also said the AJ-
Committee leaders were
pleased with the Argen-
tinians' promise to iden-
tify themselves with the
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United States in opposing
attempts to politicize
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