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- WE REPAI R AND SELL ALL MAKES OF VACUUM CLEANERS 3 convenient locations BOOR HOUSEKEEPER STORES `United OAK PARK 26011 COOLIDGE, N of 101/2 Rd.' LI 6 - 0089 . BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD PLAZA Telegraph- Maple • 851 6223 - DE TRCLT 19179 LIVERNOIS, N. of 7 Mile 861-0701 lations Committee's •sub- 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 We care for our kosher customers! 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- Institution Services Kosher Patients That's why we produce more than 450 A&P and Ann Page brand products with the trusted symbol. 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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 "Oen .510* Td, United States in opposing attempts to politicize UNESCO. 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