. _ . 6 Friday, November 30, 1919 Caricatures for your party By SAM FIELD Call 399-1320 • ' . . ..... 14 4 • t THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Abuse, General Decline Forcing Risks by Syria Jews (Continued from Page 1) While earlier assassi- nations were attributed to Iraqi agents, the recent waves, including the Aleppo massacre, are believed to be the work of the Muslim Brotherhood, a fanatical group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslims, which originated in Egypt and hag spread throughout the Arab world. Although the Syrian government executed 15 al- leged Muslim Brotherhood If You Want to BUY 'EMI We Want to SELL 'EM! See Us First! GLASSMAN OLDSMOBILE, INC. 28000 TELEGRAPH at Tel-12 Mall 354-3300 Just South of 12 Mile Rd. SPITZER'S of Harvard Row • Is Your Hanuka Store Menoras-Dreidels Paper Decorations — Signs Cooky Cutters — Hanuka Gelt Gift Wrapping RUMMI GAME MS - _ = REG. $15.95 SET SPITZER'S MN === = members on June 28, the wave of assassinations has continued. The Jewish community is particularly fearful . that should President Assad be overthrown and replaced by a Muslim Brotherhood dominated regime, a new wave of active anti-Jewish persecution would begin. Christians and other minorities in Syria are also fearful of the effect upon them of a fanatically reli- gious Muslim regime, but they are able to leave the country, while Jews are barred from doing so. At a meeting with Sy- rian Jewish community leaders in Damascus at the end of 1976, President Assad promised to re- move the special restric- tions upon the Jewish community and to treat Jews equally with other citizens. Some degree of liberalization did occur in subsequent months. Jews no longer required - advance written permis- sion from the Muhabarat (intelligence or secret police) to travel from one city to another within Syria, and the special marking of Jewish iden- tity papers with the word "Musawi" (Jewish) prominently in red was replaced by a smaller no- tation in blue. However, in the case of Muslims and Christians, the entry for religion was usually left blank, in keep- ing with Assad's policy of attempting to minimize ethnic and religious di- visions in the courrtry. Despite the promises to remove .other restrictions, Jews continue to face diffi- culties with regard to in- heritance and in disposing of property, requiring spe- cial perinission to sell a car or a house. If they wish to engage in foreign trade they are advised to use a Muslim partner to head the firm. Muslim directors also are appointed by the govern- from this general climate as ment to supervise the well as the specifically Jewish schools. Govern- anti-Jewish restrictions. ment employment is not It is therefore all the more open to Jews, and while urgent to maintain interna- they can attend the univer- tional legal and humanita- sities, their numbers and rian efforts to induce the fields of study are re- Syrian authorities to live up stricted. to their obligations under Some Syrian Jews have the Universal Declaration been permitted to travel of Human Rights. abroad on brief visits for business, health or family Coalition Lobbies reasons, but they are still at United Nations required to leave a large security deposit and _ NEW YORK (JTA) — members of their im- New York State Attorney mediate family must stay General Robert Abrams, behind as assurance for chairman of the Legal Coal- their return. ition for Syrian Jewry, led a In response to numerous delegation of prominent interventions, including a New York and California personal appeal by public officials and attor- President Jimmy Carter, neys last week as they President Assad agreed in called for the United Na- July 1977 to allow 12 un- tions to take immediate ac- married Jewish women to tion to free the hostage come to the U.S. to find hus- community of Jews in Syria. bands here. Despite Assad's The delegation, which in- promise to allow additional cluded distinguished Syrian persons to leave for Jewish lawyers and Abe humanitarian reasons "on a Dwek, director of the Com- case by case basis," the Sy- mittee for Rescue of Syrian rian government has turned Jewry, presented a petition a deaf ear to repeated re- and a bill of particulars to quests conveyed by the U.S. U.S. Deputy Representative government on behalf of on the UN Security Council other Syrian Jews, includ- Richard Petree at the U.S. ing a list of an additional 51 Mission •to the UN. young women, and requests Later, U.S. Ambas- for family reunions submit- sador to the United Na- ted by members of the tions Donald McHenry 25,000 Jews of Syrian origin arranged for a delegation living in the U.S. of the coalition to meet It is the dashing of all with Fou-tchin Liu, direc- hopes for legal emigration tor and deputy to Secre- combined with the deter- iorating situation within Syria that has prompted Sy- rian Jews to turn in desper- ation to "illegal" avenues of escape. Amnesty International describes in its Briefing Paper No. 16 on Syria, is- sued in October 1979, the violations of fundamental rights engaged in by the or- gans of Syrian state secu- rity, whose pervasive influ- ence has been intensified as a result of the internal un- rest in the country. The Jewish community suffers tary General Kurt Wal- dheim. A simultaneous demon- stration of support for the Syrian Jews was held at California State Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy's office in Los Angeles. McCarthy, co-author with State Senator William Campbell of a Joint Assem- bly Resolution calling for United States action on be- half of Syrian Jews, re- ceived a delegation of t1-1- Legal Coalition. EXCALIBUR Hair Styling Salon GUY MINNELLA International Hair Styling Award Winner 353-4848 Call for your appt. 24901 Northwestern Suite 111 Heritage Bldg. S.W. 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