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Greene, assistant superin- tendent for curriculum, and other administrators recommended that the guide be withdrawn. "In its place," Dr. Greene told the Detroit Teacher newspaper, "we are recom- mending that a writing team, independent of spe- cial interest groups, utiliz- ing the services of consul- tants, develop a guide that will include the cultural and historical development of the various ethnic groups in the Middle East. "We are aware that at the middle and senior high level, the course might have to be taught in the context of controv- ersial issues. We would hope that our students would be well-informed and yet not captives of any single disputed point of view," Dr. Greene said. Dr. Greene was unavail- able for comment this week and his office could not say whether the guide had al- ready been withdrawn from Detroit schools. 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Arab leaders were out- spoken about the recom- mendation to remove the guide and called for letter- writing campaigns and bringing the issue to the at- tention of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington. Economy, Anti-Semitism Linked (Continued from Page 1) jobs less scarce, people seem more compatible. "Prejudice is there but the aggressiveness is less apt to surface," he says. But when inflation soars and people labor under fi- nancial burdens, many tend to vent their frustrations on "classic discriminatory vic- tims," notably blacks and Jews. "We have a stereotype of the Jew as being in control of the financial sector of society and therefore in con- trol of the economy," says Levak. Prejudice, he adds, comes early through socialization. Americans have always been ethnocentric and ra- cially insular, preferring to "stay within their own ethnic groups." From the beginning, he says, Ameri- cans have also been taught Anglo-conformity — the no- tion that anyone coming into the society should put aside their own cultural heritage. "The Jews do not readily put aside their cultural heritage so they are always a standby for Anglo prejudice." Katz says that anti- Semitism is just one re- sponse of stressed people who don't understand the real reasons for their prob- lems. During hard times, expecially, such people tend to misdirect their anger and feelings of helplessness, he explains. "The spontaneous expres- sion of irrational hatreds and fears is generated by deteriorating economic conditions and the need to find an explanation for them. "But it would be a mis- take to focus only on anti- Semitism. In times like these, blacks come in for similar treatment. You have to see both types of prejudice as deriving from the same source." According to Katz, dur- ing hard times, blacks are often seen as immediate rivals for a decreasing number of jobs, while Jews are viewed as the ruling group responsible for the deterioration of conditions. "In times of crisis," he says, "hardpressed people tend to perceive all Jews as rich and all the rich as Jews." Some also believe that all economic problems derive from a sinister interna- tional Jewish conspiracy tent on depriving the rest the population of their livelihoods, he says. It was this line of reason, Katz notes, which prompted August Bebel — a pre- World War I German politi- cal leader — to denounce anti-Semitism as "the socialism of fools." "Of course," says Katz, "such irrationality still tends to pop up when condi- tions are bad and Jews are available to provide a con- venient scapegoat popula- tion." Both Levak and Katz agree also that overt acts of racial prejudice signal a de- eper malaise. "We have a high level of educational training in this country, but Ameri- cans are not really fully educated to understand human relationships," explains Levak. "I'm not so sure the American public really understands the meaning of democracy, namely that the rights of all individuals to be individuals must be preserved." M.E. Expert Warns of Arab Drive to Delegitimize Jewry NEW YORK — The Arabs, "abetted by oil- soaked funds and the world's critical energy needs, are gearing up for a no-holds-barred attempt to delegitimize — indeed to dehumanize the collective existence of Jews as ex- pressed in the sovereign society of Israel," Dan Schueftan charged in his address to presidents, lead- ers and educational direc- tors of American and Cana- dian Jewish youth move- ments. Prof. Schueftan teaches Arab-Israeli affairs and contemporary Arab history at the University of Haifa and lectures at the Israeli Defense Forces Command Staff College. Prof. Schueftan, who will be the Detroit Zionist Fed- eration scholar-in- residence at the end of the month, alerted the partici- pants in a workshop semi- nar on Arab propaganda, "The Case for Israel — Know What to Answer," that "the implications of this Arab campaign consti- tute a basic assault on the principles of human rights, dignity, morality and free- dom whose values are the basis of Western society and civilization. "This onslaught has giave consequences for the United States and the free world," he em- phasized. "For freedom loving peoples and nations to be seduced by oil wealth and energy shortages is to assist in an Arab-PLO effort whose effect is to undermine everything they hold preci- ous." The workshop on Arab propaganda and how to counter it was sponsored by the North American Jewish Youth Council (NAJYC) under the aegis of the American Zionist Youth Foundation. AJCongress Ask' Boycott Probe NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Con- gress has called for a federal investigation of Arab plans to expand the economic boycott of Israel. The ex- panded economic boycott was proclaimed in Taif, Saudi Arabia, at the conclu- sion last Thursday of a three-day summit confer- ence of leaders of 37 Islamic nations and the Palestine Liberation Organization. %NI 4