THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30 Friday, April 3, 1981
AJCongress Downplays Anti-Semitism,
But Urges Nine-Point Community Action
NEW YORK (JTA)
While there is evidence of
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"claims of a 'wave' of anti-
Semitism in any part of this
country do not seem jus-
tified," the American
Jewish Congress declared
in a major statement on
anti-Semitism adopted by
its policy-making Govern-
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The AJCongress also
adopted a comprehensive
nine-point community ac-
tion program to "cauterize"
anti-Semitism at its source.
Despite an increase in the
number of reported inci-
dents of anti-Semitism, "all
social indices we have con-
ventionally employed to
measure anti-Semitism
over the years converge in
the same direction: the low
estate of anti-Semitism in
the United States," the AJ-
Congress asserted. "In all
sectors of American life,
anti-Semitism has become
shabby, disreputable and
abhorrent."
"There is uniform
agreement by all who
have studied these mat-
ters that there is no evi-
dence that any of the re-
cent acts of anti-Semitism
were carried out in con-
cert or pursuant to any
common design, purpose
or arrangement," the
statement said.
"In the overwhelming
majority of cases in which
the perpetrators have been
caught, they have turned
out to be juveniles under the
age of 17, and in virtually
all cases it has been estab-
lished that they were acting
independently," according
to the AJCongress analysis.
Nevertheless, the AJ-
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period does not allow us to
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Western culture "is bur-
dened by a tragic legacy of
anti-Semitic prejudice," it
added.
The AJCongress nine-
point program calls for: im-
proved monitoring of anti-
Semitic incidents; creation
of separate sections in police
departments and the pro-
secutor's offices to deal with
racial or religious incidents;
a review of existing laws to
determine their adequacy;
reviewing the methods of
dealing with offenders;
periodic reviews by the
police, prosecutors and the
Jewish community of anti-
Semitic incidents.
Also, meetings with the
media to discuss the
method of reporting inci-
dents; conferences with
churches and schools on
how to convert anti-
Semitic incidents into
constructive purposes;
assistance to school dis-
tricts on curricula deal-
ing with human rights,
genocide and the
Holocaust; and organiza-
tion of communitywide
coalitions to maintain
alertness toward anti-
Semitism and to meet it
with a united response.
The AJCongress pointed
out its officials studied a
wide range of reports of
anti-Semitic incidents in
the U.S. The statistics on
increased growth by the Ku
Klux Klan "do not imply
that the Klan is on the verge
of a breakthrough in terms
of public support," the AJ-
Congress statement said.
In employment, housing
and admission to the most
prestigious universities and
professional schools, "Jews
confront no special
encumberances, as Jews,
and experience no signific-
ant discrimination," it
added.
"More critically," the
statement argued, "there is
not a single influential pub-
lic personality or molder of
public opinion, not a single
important or influential
journal, magazine or news-
paper, not a single impor-
tant or influential radio or
televisTon commentator or
spokesman who has failed
to express complete and
total abhorrence and revul-
sion over anti-Semitism in
all its manifestations."
NY Honors
Nazi-Hunters
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Simon Wiesenthal and
Charles Kramer Day was
marked Tuesday in New
York. A presentation to the
two Nazi-hunters was made
by Mayor Edward Koch at
City Hall. An award dinner
in their honor was held at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel,
where both men were fea-
tured speakers. Wiesenthal
has been responsible for
bringing hundreds of Nazis
to justice.
Kramer was responsible
for identifying Archbishop
Valerian Trifa as a member-
of the wartime fascist
Romanian Iron Guard.
Sephardi Unit Hits Israel,
Agency on Immigration Woe
LONDON (JTA) —
Sephardi Jewish leaders
from several countries have
expressed profound disap-
pointment with Premier
Menahem Begin's Likud
government. They said that
thee. climate in Israel for
immigration was "worse
than ever" and that Project
Renewal, Begin's emer-
gency plan for improving
the lot of 100,000 of Israel's
poLrest citizens, had been "a
total fiasco."
The criticism of the Is-
raeli government and the
Jewish Agency came at the
end of a meeting last week
of the World Sephardi Fed-
eration's aliya and social
commission, which was
attended by Nissim Gaon,
the federation's president,
who had originally proposed
Project Renewal to Begin
shortly after the 1977 Is-
raeli general elections.
Summing up the two-day
conference, Roger Pinto, the
commission's chairman,
spoke of a "total lack of
coordination" between the
Ministry of Housing and
Absorption and the Jewish
Agency and said this was
frustrating would-be im-
migrants to Israel.
Pinto, a French busi-
nessman and leader of
the French "Ziona"
movement, spelled out
the difficulties faced by
the World Sephardi Fed-
eration in promoting
aliya to Tiberias and
Kiryat Shmona in answer
to the government's plea
for more Jewish settlers
in Galilee.
On the one hand, he said,
Jewish Agency officials had
told the federation that
there was no scope for im-
migration in Tiberias be-
cause of local unemploy-
ment. On the other hand,
the European head of the
Jewish Agency's aliyah de-
partment had said it had 20
vacant apartments there
and was calling for families
to occupy them.
A similar situation had
arisen in Kiryat Shmona
where the federation had
decided to send out 15 young
volunteers to the town de-
spite the claim of the Jewish
Agency office in Paris that
it had received no in-
structions from Israel con-
cerning these volunteers,
Pinto said.
PLO Caches Are Destroyed
in Israeli Sweep in Lebanon
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
Israeli army infantry force
went about six miles inside
southern Lebanon Tuesday
night and blew up four
houses in the village of
Toulin, east of Kibutz Mis-
gav Am. One Israeli was
slightly wounded.
The village is in the area
held by UNIFIL soldiers but
they did not intervene. Oc-
cupants of the house were
evacuated before the build-
ings were destroyed.
The army said the houses
had been used as a forward
staging area for terrorists
who have raised Israel in
the past, including an at-
tack on Misgav Am a year
ago.
Weapons, ammunition
and explosive materials
used by the terrorists
were found in a search of
the houses before they
were blown up.
Toulin village is two or
three miles south of the vil-
lage of Kantara in southern
Lebanon where UNIFIL
soldiers were killed in shel-
ling by Christian militia
last month. Militia com-
mander Saad Haddad com-
plained that Lebanese army
troops had taken up posi-
tions in the village and
threatened his men.
Israeli sources said that
in Toulin village terrorists
and UN troops are billeted
side-by-side.
Lebanese government
sources in Beirut an-
nounced that 900 Lebanese
soldiers would join the 600
already in the south work-
ing with the UNIFIL troops.
Haddad says it is these
forces that are threatening
his men.
Israel criticized the
UNIFIL commander this
week for allegedly stat-
ing that he would help the
Lebanese army put
southern Lebanon under
its control "regardless of
the casualties involved."
Israel reaffirmed its
pledge to support the Chris-
tian militia.
Lavie Chosen
Israel Consul
General in NY
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Naftalie Lavie, a 55-year-
old journalist and Holocaust
survivor was approved by
the Cabinet Sunday to be Is-
rael's new Consul General
in New York. He will re-
place Yosef Kedar who has
held the post since summer
of 1978.
Lavie was nominated by
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir with the active ap-
proval of Premier Menahem
Begin. He was a longtime
protege of former Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan and
was Dayan's press spokes-
man during the latter's te-
nure as defense minister.
Eitan Shortens
Soldier's Term
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Chief
of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan
has reduced the sentence on
a soldier who has spent most
of his time in the army in
prison for refusing to serve
or train in occup ied area s .
Private Gadi Elgazi had
served four months in de-
tention on five charges
within his unit for refusing
to go to a training camp
across the Green Line," and
was then sentenced by the
Tel Aviv District Military
Court to a year in prison
which was upheld by the
Supreme Court.