THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
AJCongress Accuses Mobil Oil Co.
of 'Sabotaging' Boycott Legislation
HOUSTON (JTA)—Mobil
Oil Corp. was accused by
the American Jewish Con-
gress of "sabotaging at
shareholders' expense the
broad national consensus
that supports effective anti-
boycott legislation."
The charge was made by
E. Stanley Topek. a mem-
ber of the AJCongress, in
presenting a resolution at
Mobil's annual meeting in
th - Houston Civic Center
g on the company to
report to shareholders its re-
sponse to Arab boycott de-
mands. The resolution was
defeated.
In his statement, TO-pek
said that Mobil, which has
been running ads in various
newspapers, had .spent
hundreds of thousands of
dollars—perhaps millions—
in company funds to attack
anti-boycott legislation. By
its conduct, Mobil has fur-
thered the Arab boycott and
revealed itself to be outside
the mainstream of public
and business support for ef-
fective anti-boycott legisla-
tion."
The AJCongress resolu-
tion presented by Topek
was introduced in the name
of six company stock-
holders who are members
of the organization.
At the stockholders' meet-
ing, Rawleigh Warner, Jr..
Mobil chairman, said that
the company still held the
idea of buying an East
Coast newspaper. It recent-
ly investigated purchase of
the defunct Long Island
Press. but declined to buy
it.
New York which is part of
New York's anti-boycott
law. The AJCommittee and
ADL _asked the Human
Rights Division to order the
Chamber of Commerce "to
cease and desist" from
such acts "together with
such other relief as the
State Commissioner of
Human Rights deems prop-
er."
In New York, President
Carter's statement endors-
ing an agreement on-arfiend-
ments to the Senate anti-
boycott bill between the
Business Roundtable and
three national Jewish organ-
izations was hailed by the
Jewish groups as under-
scoring a "broad national
Consensus in support of ef-
fective anti-boycott legisla-
tion.",
In a related development,
Michigan Congressman Wil-
liam Brodhead voiced his
support of anti-boycott legis-
lation at a recent session of
Congress.
Brodhead stated: "This
title will prohibit American
citizens and companies
from intentionally and kno-
wingly complying with sec-
ondary or tertiary boycotts.
Existing policy and current
law have been totally in-
effective in combating the
Arab boycott of Israel.
"Since 1965, when the
U.S. anti-boycott went into
effect, Arab pressure on
American business to com-
ply with the boycott has
steadily increased. Today
the Arab blacklist includes
more than 1,500 American
firms and individuals. Dis-
crimination against Ameri-
Meanwhile, the American can Jews and blatant viola-
Jewish Committee and the tion of American policy as
Anti-Defamation League of_ enunciated in the Export
Bnai Brith have asked the Administration Act are
New York State Human widespread. American
Rights Division to stop the firms have complied with
U.S. - Arab Chamber of the Arab boycott against Is-
Commerce from engaging raeli companies and individ-
in "unlawful discriminatory uals, and with boycotts
practices" in violation of against other American
state law to "enforce" the companies that have such
Arab boycott of Israel.
associations or are Jewish-
In a complaint filed with owned or managed.
the Human Rights Division,
Many American banks
the two organizations have honored letters of cred-
charged that the U.S. - it from Arab nations that
Arab Chamber of Com- specify compliance with
merce refuses to certify Arab boycott regulations.
documents accompanying
"The Arab boycott of Is-
American goods shipped to rael is inimical to Ameri-
Arab countries unless the can principles of free trade
shipper signs a clause stat- and fair play as well as to
ing that it is abiding by the freedom of religion and free-
Arab boycott.
dom of association. It is
The complaint held that high time that Congress
the actions listed con- acted on this matter. We
stituted "discriminatory should firmly establish the
practices" in violation of principle in this country.
)n 296 (13) of the eiec- The United States must end
tk. _ law of the state of its acquiescence in the dis-
Great is peace; it is to the
world as yeast is to dough.
—The Talmud
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Among those who re-
cieved the mailing was
Marcus Raskin, a Jewish
member' of the leftist ) In-
stitute for Policy Studies in
Washington.
According to documents
filed by the FBI in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Washington,
Raskin was selected to re-
ceive the New York Times
article because it "high-
lighted the fears of Jews to
the anti-Zionism of the
New Left' and Black Pan-
ther party.
The document stated "the
apparent purpose of the ac-
tion was to reveal anti-Sem-
itism on the part of the
New Left' and the Black
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FBI OK-'d Mailing of Biased Article
WASHINGTON—Former
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo-
ver and other top officials
of the FBI hierarchy person-
ally approved the anony-
mous mailing of a reprint
of a New York Times ar-
ticle containing anti-Semi-
tism to various anti-estab-
lishment political activists
in 1970.- according to re-
ports in the Washington
Post.
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