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Egyptian Official's Israel Visit
Brightens Autonomy Outlook
Anti-Semitic Song and
Dutch Soccer Slogans,
Squatters Take Club
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The chairman of the recently estab-
lished Foundation for Combating Anti-Semitism in Holland or
"STIBA," Chicago-born Richard Stein of Rotterdam, has drawn
attention to anti-Semitism in and around the stadium of the
Rotterdam "Feyenoord" soccer club.
In a letter to the director of the Feyenoord stadium, STIBA
mentions various examples which all take their origin in the
natural rivalry of Feyenoord for their main competitor, the
"Ajax" soccer club of Amsterdam. The chairman of the Ajax is
Jewish and so are several of its main supporters. Both Ajax and
Feyenoord have been national soccer champions many times.
Feyenoord fans now have a song, "Ajax to the Gas
Chambers" and similar slogans. The Feyenoord fans are
notorious for their unruly behavior.
Meanwhile, the occupation by squatters of temporarily un-
occupied buildings which is now extremely widespread in Hol-
land has now also become the fate of the former club house of Bnei
Akiva in Amsterdam.
Bnei Akiva recently moved to another part of Amsterdam, a
neighborhood that is in walking distance of the homes of most of
its Orthodox members.
The club house was to be taken over by Habonim, which had
not yet moved in. The house was unoccupied.
According to present Dutchlegislation it is almost impossible
to evict squatters once they have been in a building more than a
few hours and have managed to bring in a bed and a table.
Meanwhile, in Paris, the left-wing organization "Movement
Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and for Peace" ( MRAP) is about
to expel one of its members who has agreed to act as defense
attorney for Robert Flaurisson, a French historian who has writ-
ten a book in which he contends that the Nazi gas chambers never
existed and that the Holocaust victims have been "grossly exag-
gerated."
The former professor who was dismissed from his post at
Lyons University in the wake of a scandal caused by one of his
previous books on the same theme, is being sued by eight civic
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — More Egyptian ministers will visit Israel shortly following the successful
visit last week of Prof. Mohammad Mahmoud Daoud, Egypt's agriculture minister.
Political circles in Jerusalem described Daoud's visit and particularly his meetings in Jerusalem
as a breakthrough in the relations between the two countries. Thus they expected further steps
promoting the normalization process.
Israel Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon will leave for Egypt shortly and Egypt's minister of
industry will visit Israel.
The most significant change in Daoud's visit was the end to the boycott on Jerusalem,
political observers noted, although the Egyptians made a point of stressing that the visit by
no means meant recognition of Israeli sovereignty over both parts of Jerusalem.
Daoud met with President Yitzhak Navan and Premier Menahem Begin. He is the first Egyptian
of cabinet rank to Jerusalem since the peace treaty negotiations ran into a snag nearly three years
ago and he made it clear that this was a
courtesy call on the president and should
not be construed as recognition of Israel's
sovereignty over the city.
Daoud said the purpose of his visit to
Israel was professional to deal with such
matters as the exchange of specialists, re-
search and new technology in the field of
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to recognize non-
agriculture.
Orthodox trends within Jewry was rejected in the Knesset
Israel's Sharon is expected to pay a re-
last week, 42-26.
turn visit to Egypt in the near future to
The draft bill proposed by Knesset member Amnon.
Rubinstein on behalf of the opposition Shinui (Change)
further areas of cooperation. Sharon
Party would have recognized the Reform movement,
pointed out that Daoud's visit is the first
known in Israel as the Movement for Progressive Judaism,
by "an Egyptian minister who does not
as a religious body on equal footing with the Orthodox
deal with the actual peace negotiations
rabbis and thus able to perform marriages and conduct
but rather with the implementation of the
other religious duties including burial services with gov-
peace agreement" between Egypt and Is-
ernment aid.
rael.
Rubinstein said Israel was the only country in the Free
World where rabbis other than those of an Orthodox trend
_ The upbeat mood was not mirrored,
were not allowed to perform religious functions. He said
however, by former Defense Minister
such progressive rabbis did not represent merely a minor-
Moshe Dayan, who said the West Bank
ity group but the majority of Jews in the Free World from
and Gaza Strip autonomy talks have
which American Jewish leadership came.
reached a dead end and Israel should
Replying for the government, Justice Minister Moshe
now grant the self-rule envisaged by
Nissim asked the Knesset to reject the motion as passage of
the
Camp David accords on a unilat-
the law would interfere with the status quo which formed
eral basis.
the basis for the establishment of all coalition governments
.
Bill to Recognize
Reform Movement
Defeated in Knesset
in the past.
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Ariener Library on Nazism Transferred to Tel Aviv U.
Juden Raus (Jews Out), a Nazi game for children
in which the winner is the first player to expel six
Jews, is displayed at the Wiener Library.
By HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Wiener Library, described as the world's largest, most important and most comprehensive
source of information on anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and fascism, has been moved from London to Tel Aviv University.
The collection, which has been referred to as a chamber of horrors, was established in Amsterdam in 1933 by Dr.
Alfred Wiener, a G4-rman Jewish scholar who recognized the dangers of the rising Nazi Party and began to devote himself
to documenting its practices.
Wiener moved it in 1939 to London, where it opened on the very day World War II broke out. During the war
the library, which he continued to head, was extensively used by the British intelligence services as a major
source fOr information about German affairs and by the British Broadcasting Corp. for its counter-
propaganda services.
After the war, the library was expanded by the addition of eye-witness accounts of Nazi atrocities, transcripts of the
Nuremburg and Eichmann war crimes trials, and documents from the Gestapo and Nazi Party archives.
Wiener died in 1964. Since then the library has been headed by Prof. Walter Laqueur, who divides his time between
London and Tel Aviv, where he is on the faculty of the Tel Aviv University.
The library contains 60,000 books, reference works, pamphlets and periodicals, one million newspaper clippings,
1,500 eye-witness accounts of Nazi persecution from diaries, unpublished memoirs and interviews, 40,000 documents
relating to the Nuremberg trials and the Eichmann trial, literature on the various publications and editions of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion," dossiers on war criminals, and some 5,000 documents relating to the Jewish question
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