THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 19, 1919 19
A Recent Visitor to Israel: He Spoke Well and Didn't Listen
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How is a visit of a black
leader in Israel being
judged non-Jewishly?
A-Nei,v York Times story,
Sept. 28, was headlined "Is-
raelis Feel Jackson Used
Peace Trip for Self-
Promotion." NY Times
correspondent David K.
Shipler thus commented on
the visit:
"Good preacher, bad lis-
tener" was the headline of
the main editorial in The
Jerusalem Post yesterday,
and that about summed up
Israel's perception of the
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson after
his three-day swing
through,Jerusalem and the
West Bank of the Jordan.
One of several black
leaders who have
plunged headlong into
the deep waters of the
Middle East politics in
recent weeks, Mr.
Jackson tried to spread a
soothing film of civil
rights slogans about
human justice on the sur-
face of ancient Arab-
Jewish hostilities. And fie
made some efforts to ap-
pear balanced — by visit-
ing hospitalized Israeli
victims of a recent ter-
rorist bombing in
Jerusalem, by walking
through a museum deal-
ing with the Holocaust,
by promising to urge
Palestinian leaders in
Jordan and Lebanon to
abandon terrorism.
that during a walk through
the Old City, Mr. Jackson
seemed interested only in
having his picture taken,
and he spent much of his
time carefully placing him-
self in flattering poses.
Once, Mayor Kollek
reported, he rushed over
to a veiled Arab woman
for the benefit of the
photographers and stood
so close that he touched
her, contravening Mos-
lem custom.
At a Palestinian refugee
JESSE JACKSON
camp outside Jerusalem,
Mr. Jackson spent an hour
It was too soon to tell without asking any refu-
whether this part of Mr. gees a single question. He
Jackson's message would applauded when an old man.
leave any lasting impres-
came up to him and told him
sion on the Palestinian that the Palestine Libera-
leadership. The response of tion Organization, which
ordinary Palestinians was - uses terror as a weapon,
also difficult to read. There
were enthusaistic crowd Jakob Bass
scenes yesterday in Nablus
in the occupied West Bank. Sought by Sister
The American Red Cross
But at a refugee camp the
day before, -the reaction is seeking Jakob Bass for
his sister in Australia.
seemed tepid.
Bass was last in contact
In the eyes of many Is-
raelis, Mr. Jackson's at- with his sister in May 1941.
tempts at fairness were Born in 1893 at Nikolaev,
merely cosmetic. Some who Russia, his parents' names
watched him closely during were Chaim and Leba and
his visit concluded that he his wife's name was Rosa.
was interested less in the His sister is Mrs. Haja Get-
Middle East, less in the souk of Bondi, New South
plight of the Palestinians, Wales, Australia.
Anyone with information
than he was in himself.
Mayor Teddy Kollek of about Bass should contact
Jerusalem, the only gov- the American Red Cross
ernment official who would service to military families,
agree to see him, said later 833 4440.
"speaks in our name." And
he gave a soul-brother
handshake to another man
who had complained of ar-
rests and torture under the
Israeli military authoritiei.
But as he walked through
the camp, stopping in
classrooms and once picking
up a small girl to be photo-
graphed with her, much to
the chagrin of some Arab
adults to whom photog-
raphy is a forbidden act, he
never stopped to have a con-
versation with any of the
residents, although he had
an Arabic speaker in his
entourage.
It was this odd lack of
curiosity, this apparent
unwillingness to listen, that
annoyed those who came
into contact with him, and
in the end even dampened
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