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6 Friday, April 29, 1977

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500,000 jobs were at atake.
The opposition:Meader,
House Republican Whip
Robert Michel (R411.) said
"morality and sensitivity"
are not "on only one side"
of the issue. He, mentioned
the loss of jobs, and said,

"An unspoken assumption
underlying this debate
there is fear, very rt al
fear, present in the Hou: e,
that those who question or
- vote" against this bill "will
be labeled less than friend-
ly to the nation of Israel.
Without a strong America,
Israel will surely be de-
stroyed. And we cannot
have a strong America by
legislating away hundreds
of thousands of American
jobs."

In response, Deputy Dem-
ocratic Whip Benjamin
Rosenthal. (D-NY), said
that Michel "sees the vote
on this bill as being a 'vote
for or against Israel. I do
not see it that way at all. It
is a vote for or against fun-
damental _ American prin-
ciples." Rosenthal said the
boycott has "very little im-
pact, in Israel."

Expo a Success

Between 2,500-3,000 people
attended the Israel Expo 77
last Sunday at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, according to
steering committee chair-
man Morris Cooper.
The celebration of Israel
Independence Day was
sponsored by the Detroit Zi-
onist Federation and the
Jewish Educators Council.

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Readers Forum

The Boycott and Arab Propaganda

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Editor, The Jewish News:
The information, or propa-
ganda, situation vis-a-vis Is-
rael is a constant source of
concern for me. I just fin-
ished reading a double-
truck ad in the Wall Street
Journal of April 18. It ap-
peared in other influential
papers, in the form of a
well-doctored question-and-
, answer interview with Dr.
Richard D. Robinson on the
matter of boycott legisla-
tion.
Robinson•fully exploits
the usual scare headlines of
what would happen to the
American, economy if Con-
gress passes stringent anti-
boycott bills now pending.
His figures. here and
throughout the two pages
can be seriously chal-
lenged. But he goes still fur-
ther.
Anti-boycott legislation
-is: ". extremely , dan-
gerous to the Israeli
cause. . . " He threatens
that his projected, "off-the-
cuff" figure of a half-a-mil-
lioi American jobs lost
through antirboycott legisla-
tion! could develop into an,
"anti-Israel 'backlash—yes,
it could easily become an
anti-Semitic backlash."
Robinson views anti-boy-
cott laws as the end of the.
world for America. There is
much that is sick and on
the verge of hysteria in Rob-
inson's analysis.
He dismisses the moral
aspect by comparing the
Arab boycott with the U.S.
war against Japan. Here he
doesn't even mention the
word ' ,Arab" ' or "Israel."
Clever.
"There was no moral
issue involved "in our fight
against a Japanese attack
(the underscoring is mine).
He lets the reader continue
along the guide line he has
set out, ignoring that the
Arabs attacked Israel and
made war inevitable in
each of the four major mili-
tary actions.
It would be tragic if Is-
rael and her friends permit-
ted such perverse propagan-
da' to gain ground and not
expose its obvious larce-
- nous content and overtones.
I can't overemphasize the
dangers of keeping a low-
key public profile in the
face of these outrageous at-
tacks. They concern Ameri-
can Jews as much \as Is-
rael. I have always consid-
ered aggressive information
as only second in impor-
tance to Israel's survival as
the Defense Forces.
Robinson's quote from
Richard Nolte, former U.S.
Ambassador to Egypt in
1967, is especially "inter-
esting." Nolte, a notorious
anti-Israel personality, ties
the boycott to a "peaceful
settlement of the Arab-Is-

in thrall to Isfael. "That is,
• of course, a total -lie—the
"thrall' business.
I would also like to quote
raeli dispute," although he two sentences in a NY
must be totally aware that Times editorial (Feb. 24)
a "peaceful settlement" headed : "One Boycott Is
means the satisfaction of Enough."
every Arab demand. (The
The line is : ". . . Second-
operation was a success, ary and tertiary boycotts
but the patient died. )
force American businesses
to become the instruments
In other words, a strong of the foreign policies of
anti-boycott stand by Con- other nations. They Tik
gress will be taken by them wrong and they should be
(the Saudis) ". . . as evi- legal . . ."
Charles J. Levin
dence that United States
Los Angeles
Middle East policy is still

Satmarer-Lubavitcher Conflict
Explodes in Threats, Violence

Special to The Jewish News

Brooklyn, N.Y.-Accusa-
tions leveled at the Lubavit-
cher movement by a so-
called council, of 137 Wil-
liamsburg organizations
was branded this week by
rabbinic and congregational
leaders as a libel and as a
sickening attach on a rever-
ed Hasidic movement.
The original accusations,
which charged a Yiddish
weekly, Algemeiner Jour-
nal, as inciting the Lubavit-
cher to violence, is now.
being exposed as having
emanated from the Satma-
rer Hasidic group, which is
known as a most violently
anti-Israel and anti-Zionist
movement.
The current. Williamsburg
trouble reportedly com-
menced after the Entebbe
rescue of the hijacked by Is-
rael. The Lubavitcher
Rebbe quoted Halakha and
called the incident, a mir-
acle. That's when the Sat-
marer, in their venom
against Israel began their
anti-Lubavitch campaign.
One of the "Torah tanks"
used by the Lubavitch
youth organization in mid-
Manhattan was stoned and
the young Hasidim man-
ning it barely escaped
serious injury.
The stoning- took place in
front 'of the Satmarer
synagogue, whose occu-
pants rushed out into the_
street and urged the atta-
ckers on The offices of the
pro-Lubavitch Algemeiner
Journal ha-ve been bombed
out. At the end of January,
on the yortzeit of the for-
mer Lubavitcher rebbe,
Montefiore - Cemetery on
Long ' 'Island, where the
rebbe is buried, was dese-
crated with obscene anti-
Lubavitch leaflets. In tele-
phone threats made later,
the perpetrators threatened
to deface the rebbe's grave-
stone itself.
Satmar Hasidim have as-
sailed the Lubavitch move-
ment as "Zionist" and
worse.
the Nazi rescue of Miisso-
lini in the Second World
War.

JEWISH

Young Satmar Hasidim
burned the efigy of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe Schneer-
son last Purim in William-
sburg. This year on Pesah,
as Lubavitcher Hasidim
walked to Williamsburg to
give dissertations on the
Torah—a long-standing tra-
dition—they were phys-
ically attacked by scream-
ing, cursing mobs of Sat-
mar men, women and chil-
dren.
Rabbi Schneerson had ear-
lier admonished his Hasi-
dim that they were not to
retaliate if attacked, and
the Lubavitch walkers
obeyed their leader's in-
junetion and did not strike
back.
However, on their walk
back to Crown Heights, as
they were again attacked
by the Satmarer, other Hasi-
dim (Beltz, Squir, Vizhnitz)
tried to help the Lubavit-
cher. The police also inter-
vened and shepherded
many Lubavitch .men into
synagogues, where they
were sheltered until the po-
lice had dispersed the at-'
tacking crowd.
At one stage, Rabbi Leibel
Groner, a personal assist-
ant of the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, was surrounded by
a screaming group threat-
ening to kill him. The po-
lice drew their guns and ex-
tricated him, and despite
the fact that it was Shabat
land Yomtov, entered a po-
lice car and was driven to
safety some distance away.
Satmar anti-Israel actions
relate to the vitriolic cam-
paign against Zionism by
the Neturei Karta of Mea
Shearim in Israel and the
group operating as Ameri-
can Neturei Karta in New
York. Their latest violent at-
tack on Israel and the Aioak
ist cause was a paid advelqr
tisement, the 11th in a
series, in the New York
Time4 on Monday, April 25
under the title "Bankruptcy
of Zionism... Zionism vs.
Judaism... etc. It contain-
ed attacks compared with
which the PLO anti-Semitic
slogans could be judged as
compliments to Jewry.

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