THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS eaders Forum • Materials submitted to the Readers Forum must be brief. The writer's name will be withheld from publication upon request. No unsigned letters will be published. Materials will not he returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Anti-Redgrave Tactics Issue Editor, The Jewish NeWs: The Jewish Community Council sent a communica- ti m n to its constituent izations that it will rotest the showing of * * * Activists Oppose Editor, The Jewish News: The Conference of Jewish Activists urges all Jews and Jewish organizations to op- pose the broadcast of "Play- ing For Time" on WJBK- TV2. This broadcast, using Vanessa Redgrave to por- tray Fania Fenelon, a sur- vivor of Nazi barbarianism, is an insult and an outrage. The selection of Redgrave is more than a mere "act of insensitivity, offensiveness and bad taste" as described by the Jewish Community Council. Their description demonstrates a total failure to grasp the significance of the Redgrave choice. The choice of Redgrave is a deliberate insult and is contemptuous of the most horrible experience in human and Jewish his- tory. For her to play a Jewish survivor of Nazism is hypocrisy. It cheapens and demeans the Fenelon ex- perience. With her hatred of Jewish nationality, Red- grave mocks Jewish survi- val, and we all know it. She, in advocating "Palestinian" claims to the Land of Israel and in sup- porting the savagery of the PLO, is a racist denying the existence of Jewish nation- hood. She is the successor to the Nazi philosophy of ex- termination of the Jewish body and soul, identity and homeland. Toleration of her selec- tion is to laugh at the Jewish trauma. To claim that this is a matter of censorship and the 1st Amendment is to raise fake issues. Red- grave is not losing her freedom to attack Jews or to applaude PLO bar- barianism. Nor is it a =stion of blacklisting .e Jews are her victims, not the other way around. We reject the ghetto men- 4- y of Jewish organiza- ,s that grovel while hesitatingly demure over the selection of a PLO sup- porter to portray a Holocaust survivor. We reject the ghetto men- tality of Jewish organiza- tions that hope that the pro- gram will make the non- Jew more sympathetic to the supplicating Jew, thus making the insult and out- rage less burning and cut- ting. Michael Drissman, Executive director, Michigan branch, Conference of Jewish Activists Vanessa Redgrave's film "Playing for Time" on Channel 2. This is in re- sponse to our request to take the lead in voicing the Jewish community's feeling about using Redgrave. The letter also stated that they do not want to "blacklist" the actress or to infringe on her artistic rights; and it may be that the film will do more good in portraying the tragedy of the Holocaust. More likely, the JCC does not want to make waves with Channel 2 on which they have their TV pro- grams. Shame on them! We decided to publish our letter to Ch. 2's Bob McBride as a public re- lease and will send out 6,000 copies to all our members in Michigan, to Congressmen, Senators, the state legislators, rab- bis, Jewish organiza- tions, academicians and media. Our first effort with the protest to CBS brought in requests for thougands of copies! - We are not calling for a boycott; we are asking that Ch. 2 not show the film; and let those who get our mail- ing make their own decision about viewing it. Louis Panush Zionist Organization of Detroit Boycott Bill Is Urged in NY NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jewish Community Re- lations Council (JCRC) has called upon the New York State Legislature to strengthen existing state and federal legislation by passing a law that would forbid the state from doing business with companies which comply with the Arab boycott. Such a bill was passed by the New York City Council last year. JCRC officials said that the measure has been sub- mitted based upon the New York City experience, which would serve notice on companies that would stand to lose the considerable state and city markets and would underscore determi- nation not to tolerate any act of discrimination. Wiesenthal Medal Favored WASHINGTON (JTA) — The House last week ap- proved a Congressional gold medal for Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal in recog- nition of his work in finding escaped war criminals. The vote in favor of the medal was 289-38. The bill was identical to one passed by the Senate in November and the legisla- tion now goes to President Carter for final approval. Friday, March 14, 1980 21 Jakobovits NY Talk Canceled NEW YORK (JTA) — A spokesman for Shuva, which identifies itself as the North American Aliya Movement, said that a speaking engagement by British Chief Rabbi Im- manuel Jakobovits at the Forest Hills Jewish Center Sunday was canceled after several groups protested to the Queens congregation against his appearance there. Shifra Hoffman of Shuva said that the Center gave security Problems as the reason for the cancellation. Jakobovits came under intense attack last month for his strong criticism of Is- rael government policies, particularly the prolifera- tion of Jewish settlements in the occupied Arab ter- ritories at a time when Is- rael is negotiating with Egypt and the U.S. over au- tonomy in those territories. He was particularly at- tacked for his statement that he did not rule out the possibility of a Pales- tinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and that he would even allow such a state to have its capital in East Jerusalem. According to Hoffman, individual members of the Center's board were con- tacted by representatives of Shuva and of the Jewish Identity Center, the Jewish Defense League and the "Committee for Settlements in the Land of Israel," ob- jecting to Kakobovits' ap- pearance. In Baltimore on Tuesday, police ejected two hecklers at Jackobovits' speech at Beth Jacob Congregation. (Rabbi Jakobovits is scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Cong. Shaarey Zedek in South- field. His topic is Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die — Biomedical Ethics and the Jewish Tradition." The lecture is open to the public.) . Mercy to him that shows it is the rule. Tell. rranti ino 0 8 nc. E - .31313 851-733 31313 Northwestern Farmington Hills , • Jewelry Designers & Manufacturers of Original & Unusual Creations Authorized Appraisers • Estate Liquidators DURING THE SEDER DINNER EVERYONE WILL THINK YOU DID WHEN YOU DIDN'T U.S. Policy Drift Worries Diplomat TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (JTA) — An Israeli dip- lomat said here Sunday, The U.S. is inclined to take too many risks at the ex- pense of Israel." Ambas- sador Shaamay Cahana, deputy representative of Is- rael to the United Nations, referred to the Security Council vote of March 1 condemning Israel's settle- ments in the occupied ter- ritories, which the U.S. supported and President Carter later disavowed. The last test in the Secu- rity Council was only a symptom of Israel's difficult political situation," Cahana told an audience of 200 at Temple Beth Abraham. With respect to Carter's re- nunciation of the vote, he said, "We accept the posi- tion of the President as the last word . . . What is dis- turbing is the drift of U.S. policy. The 'U.S. is inclined to take too many risks at the expense of Israel." Cahana said, "The Is- rael government has a sincere interest in a con- tinuous and ongoing cooperation with the U.S. It would be a pity if, as a result of the present ex- perience, that our rela- tions would be damaged in any way. We are anx- ious that good relations continue and be inten- sified as we approach a critical moment in the peace process." "One of the problems a sector of the American pub- lic has is that it pays atten- - tion to what happens in the UN. The UN has become the graveyard of many fine and some not so fine resolutions . . . Eventually, this resolu- tion will be forgotten," he said. 2 :4; ! Everybody knows how busy the balabusta is preparing for the Seder. The hustle and bustle of cleaning, cook- ing, setting the table and making sure everything is just right. 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