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ZOA Responds to 2 Pro-Arab
Speakers at State Department
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Zionist Organization of
America has resprded to
attacks on Isr el and
Zionism in meeti gs con-
ducted at the State Depart-
ment for personnel of the
U.S. foreign affairs estab-
lishment by the tax-funded
"Secretary's Op; Forum"
directed by a State Depart-
ment official.
The ZOA accepted an in-
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after the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency reported
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speeches by Edmund
Hanauer, who had dis-
cussed "Is Zionism a Form of
Racism," and James Zogby,
head of the Palestine
Human Rights Organiza-
tion Committee which is
under Department of Jus-
tice investigation.
Rep. William Brodhead
(D-Mich.) asked the de-
partment for a determina-
tion on whether the com-
mittee should be registered
as a foreign agent.
Dr. Paul Riebenfeld, a
national vice chairman of
the ZOA Public Affairs
Committee, appeared be-
fore the Forum. His audi-
ence, according to the
Forum's director, Paul
Molineaux, numbered
between 80and 90 —"ab-
out the same as came out
for Hanauer." Rieben-
feld's discourse and re-
sponses to questions in-
cluded the following
points:
A generation gap affects
the premises of Zionism.
The younger generation
considers that Zionism
stems from the Holocaust
and the birth of Israel in
1948 ; Actually, Zionism
began 82 years ago to estab-
lish a homeland for Jews in
what was then called Pales-
tine.
Premier Menahem Begin
is castigated for using
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Judea and Samaria but the
United Nations General
Assembly partition resolu-
tion in 1947 referred to
Judea and Samaria. In
addition, Samaria and Gaza
are mentioned in the Pales-
tine Mandate agreement.
Thus, those names are not
— as the media assumes —
used for sloganeering by
Begin and a fetish of the
Gush Emunim.
Arabs are done a disserv-
ice by generations of maps
in Christian Sunday schools
in America that depict an
area as Palestine when
there was no actual exist-
ence of a state called Pales-
tine. Such maps feed the no-
tion that Arabs were de-
prived of a state called
Palestine.
The British under the
1919-1948 Mandate called
it Palestine. Actually,
maps in Syria today show
Israel, the West Bank and
Jordan as parts of Syria.
The Turks controlled the
area for centuries.
When, in the 19th Cen-
tury, a question arose about
the Turkish-controlled
area, the general view was
that it should be given back
to the Jews. Should an inde-
pendent state be set up it
would not remain a Palesti-
nian state but revert to
Syria or some other Arab
entity.
The allegation the Pales-
tinians have no nation is a
fiction created to contest the
legitimacy of Israel. Jordan
is the Palestinian state.
Until 1970, Jordan was the
target of first preference for
a PLO takeover. King Hus-
sein makes this point in his
own writings.
Answering Hanauer's
thesis, Riebenfeld said that
Zionism is the foundation of
the Jewish state. To call it
racism, is to call into ques-
tion the legitimacy of the
state of Israel.
Cabinet Approves
Austerity Budget
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Cabinet, by majority
vote, Sunday approved Fi-
nance Minister Yigal Hur-
witz's IL 405 billion auster-
ity budget for the new fiscal
year beginning April 1.
Three ministers dissented
because of Hurwitz's de-
clared intention to slash so-
cial services and housing.
Deputy Premier Yigael
Yadin, Minister of Social
Betterment Yisrael Katz
and Absorption and Hous-
ing Minister David Levy
said they would continue to
fight for the retention of
these services. The IL 405
billion represents a
framework within which
the Treasury will have to
bargain with individual
ministries over their re-
spective budgets.
Premier Menahem Begin
announced after the six-
hour session that Project
Renewal, home building
and child welfare payments
would not be cut. Hurwitz
had planned to prune IL 2
billion from child welfare.
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
I (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
YIDDISH IN THE U.S. CENSUS: Believe it or not,
1,593,993 Jews in this country declared Yiddish as their
mother tongue in the last population census conducted by
the U.S. government in 1970. Only 438,116 of them were
born in other countries; 170,174 were second generation
Americans; the remainder were born in this country with
their parents having come from other countries or with one
of the parents being American-born.
This information entered indirectly into the data col-
lected by the U.S. Census Bureau in its 1970 decennial
census. The census does not distinguish Jews among the
more than 60 ethnic groups in this country because Jews
are classified only as a religious group within the general
population and the Census Bureau carefully abstains from
including a question on religion in its questionnaire, lest it
be accused of violating the tradition separating religion
from state.
CLASSIFICATION OF SOVIET JEWS: It is a great
absurdity to swell the data on the Russians and Ukrainian
population in the U.S. with the inclusion of Jews in this
data without identifying them as Jews, especially Jews
who are now coming to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. The
latter left the Soviet Union distinctly as Jews. They were
officially classified as Jews in the Soviet Union. They were
oppressed as Jews and lived under fierce anti-Jewish prop-
aganda stimulated by the Soviet government policy
against Jews. They were given exit visas by Soviet
authorities distinctly as Jews. They were granted U.S.
visas by Washington as persecuted Jews. They came to the
U.S. to be counted as free Jews. Yet, under the policy of the
U.S. Census Bureau they will appear in the 1980 census as
Russian and Ukrainian natives with no reference what-
soever to their being Jewish.
Perhaps this situation will open a new avenue of
thought in the minds of leaders of those Jewish organiza-
tions who oppose the identification of Jews as Jews in the
census for fear of violating the spirit of separation between
religion and state. Perhaps the fact that about 1,600,000
Jews in this country have nevertheless identified them-
selves as Jews in the census indirectly through declaring
Yiddish as their mother tongue will open the eyes of these
leaders to see that they are not reflecting the sentiments of
a large part of the American Jewish community when op-
posing Jewish identification in the census.
The result of this opposition is the fact that not only
does the census not contain data even on the total number
of Jews in this country, but also carries no data on Jewish
unemployed, the number of Jewish students in colleges and
universities, the number of Jews living below the govern-
ment standard of minimum income, and other important
aspects of Jewish life. Other national minorities in this
country are fundamentally covered in the census on these
aspects.
OUTLOOK FOR 1980 CENSUS: The 1980 question-
naire, as in the previous decennial censuses, does not in-
clude questions on Jews as Jews in the data sought on
ethnic groups. It also does not include the question on
religion, although other government departments find a
way of including this question. They do this by not making
the answer mandatory.
The 1980 questionnaire, however, introduces a ques-
tion "What is your ancestry?" which replaces two 1970
questions on where the respondent's parents were born.
This paves the way for Jews to be able to answer that they
are Jewish. At the same time, the questionnaire replaces
the question about which language other than English was
spoken in the home when the respondent was a child. The
new text reads: "Do you speak a language other than
English at home, and what is this language?" This may
exclude many American Jews who don't speak Yiddish at
home.
Torah Bibliography Printed
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Publication of what the
compiler claims to be the
first bibliography devoted
exclusively to Torah litera-
ture in English, "The Study
and Practice of Judaism,"
has been announced by the
compiler, Micha Op-
penheim.
Oppenheim,
senior
cataloguer at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America, said the 94-page
book lists more than 500
books and pamphlets ar-
ranged in 13 categories. He
said the bibliography was
created to guide growing
numbers of readers seeking
the classical religious works
of Judaism, together with
contemporary interpreta -
tions.
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