Friday, lee 23, 1978 21
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mrs. Jacobson Charges HIAS
Misrepresented Dulzin
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Terming press statements
by HIAS purporting to rep-
resent World Zionist Or-
ganization chairman Leon
Dulzin's views on the drop-
out question as "mislead-
ing," Mrs. Charlotte Jacob-
son, chairman. of the
WZO-American Section,
said that such reports are a
"disservice" to world Jewry
and to the heroic struggle of
Soviet Jewry for the right to
go on aliya to Israel.
Mrs. Jacobson referred to
Dulzin's presentation at a
recent meeting of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, of the prob-
lem of Soviet Jews who left
the Soviet Union with Is-
raeli visas and then "drop-
ped out" upon arrival in
Vienna, and went to other
countries.
Dulzin did "no more or
less than place before the
American Jewish leader-
ship a burning issue which,
unless solved or amelior-
ated, places in jeopardy the
future of the struggle of
Soviet Jewry for aliya," she
said.
Dulzin had not raised
this issue in terms of the
interests of any particu-
lar Jewish organization
but rather "as a world
Jewish problem fraught
with historic consequ-
ences" for the future of
the Jewish people,
Jacobson said.
She pointed out that if the
drop-out rate should rise, as
it may, to 70 percent or 80
percent of the Jews who
leave the USSR, it will "un-
dermine the heroic struggle
of the Soviet Jewish ac-
tivists who are basing their
entire claim on the right to
go to the Jewish homeland
in Israel."
Mrs. Jacobson said that
Dulzin had informed the
Presidents Conference that
to leave the situation as it is
could bring about a 7cates-
Canadian Hits
Anti-Boycott Act
OTTAWA (JTA) — Fed-
eral Trade Minister Jack
Homer has told the House
of Commons that the gov-
ernment will not yield to
demands by Canadian
Jewish organizations to
adopt anti-boycott legisla-
tion because "it might
jeopardize trade with Arab
states."
Horner said, "The gov-
ernment has to treat the
middle way. If we please the
Canadian-Israel Commit-
tee then we , harm our
chance of doing trade with
the Arab states," he said.
The Canada-Israel Com-
mittee charged in a com-
munique released June 7
that Prime Minister Pierre
Elliott Trudeau was "not
protecting the civil rights of
all Canadians, permitting
the infringement of Cana-
dian sovereignty and per-
mitting foreign govern-
ments to restrict Canadian
trading opportunities. "
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trophe in the struggle for
the freedom of Soviet
Jewry," and that those "who
try to make this a
`diaspora-Israel conflict are
doing a great disservice to
the Jewish people."
Referring to a recent
statement by Carl Glick,
president of HIAS, that
Dulzin believes that the
choice for Soviet Jews
should be to stay in the
USSR or go to Israel, Mrs.
Jacobson said that Dulzin
never made such a state-
ment nor does he believe
this.
Meanwhile, HIAS, the
world-wide Jewish im-
migrant aid agency, as-
sisted 3,182 Jewish re-
fugees in finding new
homes in the United
States and other Western
countries during the first
quarter of this year,
Gaynor I. Jacobson,
execut4ve vice president
of WAS reported. He
said the figure rep-
resented a nine percent
increase over the same
period in 1977.
them — comprising 2764
persons — from the Soviet
Union, a 13 percent in-
crease over 1977.
In London, Dulzin prop-
osed that immigrants to Is-
rael should be cared for in
the future by ajoint author-
ity of the Jewish Agency
and the Absorption Minis-
try as a way to end the
longstanding friction bet-
ween these two bodies.
Under the plan, which
is currently being consi-
dered by Premier Begin,
the new authority would
be headed by the Absorp-
tion Minister but the
Jewish Agency would
have day to day respon-
sobility for dealing with
absorption problems.
The ministry would be
responsible for coor-
dinating housing, educa-
tion and jobs for the new-
comers, Dulzin told a
press conference here.
In Washington, Rep.
Joshua Eilberg (D-Pa.) has
disclosed that the United
States will grant entry to an
additional 12,000 Soviet re-
According to Jacobson, fugees, most of them Jews,
2823 refugees came to the many now waiting in Rome
United States, 98 percent of to come to this country.
Bnai Zion Urges Members
Counter-Protest at Skokie
MONTICELLO, N.Y. velopments in Skokie
(JTA) — Bnai Zion, the were being watched by
American Zionist fraternal "sinister international
order, at its 69th annual forces" and that the lack
convention adopted a resol- of a proper Jewish re-
ution urging its members to sponse could signal
go to Skokie, Ill., Sunday for ominous consequences.
a counter-demonstration He rejected the claim
against a planned march by that the Nazis have a
a group of American Nazis Constitutional right to
in that heavily Jewish- march in Skokie, declar-
populated suburb.
ing "This issue was that
The 500 delegates elected of a perversion of the
Paul Safro, of Lawrence, Constitution."
N.Y., president of Bnai
Another speaker, Allard
Zion, which enters its Lowenstein, U.S. Represen-
tative to the United Nations
jubilee year.
He succeeded Rabbi Wil- Human Rights Commis-
liam Berkowitz of Cong. sion, called on the Jewish
Bnai Jeshurun in New community to continue
York. In his valedictory ad- fighting for human rights
dress, Rabbi Berkowitz throughout the world. Low-
exhorted the Jewish corn- enstein urged faith in the
munity to drop its timidity UN despite its apparent
and "join en masse" what he failings.
termed the gallant but few
Jewish organizations that Neo-Nazis Caught
will be going to Skokie.
PARIS (JTA) — French
°. He warned that de- police are questioning a
40-year-old French antique
dealer, Francois Hamon,
suspected of having or-
NEW YORK (JTA) — ganized a neo-Nazi meeting
Leon Dulzin, chairman of last weekend in a provincial
the World Zionist Organize- -city. Hamon was arrested
tion Executive, underwent Saturday night when local
surgery here for the relief of police were called to dis-
an ulcer condition and has perse a "gathering of some 15
postponed his return to Is- youths who wore Nazi-type
rael, a spokesman for the uniforms and sang Nazi
WZO American Section an- songs.
nounced.
The police found 15
He said that Dulzin, who youngsters, dressed in Nazi
is acting chairman of the uniforms. Six were Bel-
Jewish Agency Executive, gians, six Swiss and two
is resting comfortably and French. The group told the
his condition is reported as police that they belonged to
satisfactory. The spokes- a pan-European association
man said that the forthcom- and claimed that their sa
ing meeting of the Jewish lutes, which looked like the
Agency Assembly and the old Nazi "heils" were only
session of the Zionist Gen- "the Olympic greeting."
eral Council will both take They denied being Nazis
place in Jerusalem as but were briefly detained by
scheduled.
the police for questioning.
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Dulzin Is
Lima
Jewish Leaders
Voice Concern
Over Top Issues
NNE.'
WASHINGTON (JTA)
Jewish community leaders,
attending the quarterly
meeting of the Council of
Jewish Federations (CJF)
in Washington were urged
to speak out strongly on is-
sues that concern them.
The strength of local
Jewish activity is "one ele-
ment the Arabs can never
match," Albert Chernin,
executive vice chairman of
the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council (NJCRAC) stres-
sed. He said the Jewish
community must state its
position in such a way as to
include others in American
society "who may agree
with our positions."
Mark Talisman, director
of the CJF's Washington of-
fice, said that if Jewish
groups are silent, they
create a vacuum in
Washington which other
experienced groups are
ready to fill. "You have no-
thing to fear from exercis-
ing this government," he
said. "Citizenship is a full
time occupation. You get
exactly the government you
deserve."
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Jay Berman, a public
relations consultant, said
that the American public
has to be sensitized to
realize the closeness be-
tween American and Is-
raeli interests as the 1980
Presidential election ap-
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If President Carter puts
forward a Middle East peace
plan inimical to Israel, Jews
should be in "the same posi-
tion" as in 1975 when Con-
gress voiced disapproval
over the "reassessment" of
American Mideast policy by
President Ford and Secret-
ary of State Henry Kis-
singer, he said.
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Esmail to Appeal
JERUSALEM — Attor-
ney Felicia Langer an-
nounced Tuesday that she
would appeal the remaining
nine months of the 15-
month sentence imposed on
Michigan State University
student Sami Esmail for
being a memberpf the Popu-
lar Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.
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