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September 25, 1981 - Image 6

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1981-09-25

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THE DETROIT JEWISH MEWS

6 Friday, September 25, 1981

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Upsurge in Anti-Semitism in Year 5741

Let the

By GEOFFREY WIGODER

RAIN DOOM'

World Zionist Press Service

JERUSALEM — High on
this year's Jewish agenda
has been the upsurge in
anti-Semitic manifesta-
tions in various parts of the
world. These have taken
many forms but most strik-
ing and traumatic was the
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victims of a general anti-
in October, which took four
liberalism and that any
lives.
special suffering while in
The main area for anti-
custody emanated from
Semitic incidents has been
the initiative of lower
Western Europe. With
echelons and should not
growing unemployment
be seen as official policy.
and economic and social
It is known that there are
pressures, small/groups
anti-Semitic groups close to
have turned on the tradi-
the government but the
tional scapegoats — the
Argentinian government
Jews. The impact of the
has avoided anti-Semitic
mass media has received its
pressures and its attitude to
share of the blame for pro-
voking the proliferation of the Jewish community has
been correct and given no
such occurrences and some
cause for complaint.
Jewish communities have
been divided over the choice
Anti-Semitism was also
between publicizing the in-
reported from Eastern
cidents in order to alert the
Europe. Although Poland is
public to the danger or play-
almost Judenrein, a
ing them down on the
number of demonstrations
theory that publicity leads
in the framework of the un-
to imitation.
rest in the country de-
There was talk of link-ups
veloped into expressions of
among anti-Semitic groups
anti-Zionism and anti-
in different countries and
Semitism. Romania also
between them and Arab ter-
saw some anti-Jewish pub-
rorist bodies.
lications although these
It was stressed that
were, in time, officially dis-
those involved were tiny
owned.
groups, not enjoying pub-
Anti-Semitic pressures
lic backing. Major parties
and expressions continued
and bodies in all coun-
in the USSR although
tries loudly condemned
anti-Semitism, while
anti-Semitic candidates
standing for election
were everywhere over-
whelmingly defeated.
This obviously did not
eliminate the need for
constant vigilance and
relevant counteraction —
especially in view of the
increased militancy and
the resort to violence and
terrorism — but com-
parisons with the early
1930s heard from some
quarters still appear
greatly exaggerated.

Brezhnev in addressing the
Communist Party Congress
condemned "any nationalis-
tic aberration whether it is,
say anti-Semitism or
Zionism." This "even-
handed" statement may
have been a response to sus-
tained complaints from the
West.

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The most obscene form of
anti-Semitism is the at-
tempt to play down or even
deny the Holocaust. Here
again only small numbers,
led by a few pseudo-
historians, are involved.
When one of the proponents
of this "revisionist" school-of
history, Prof. Robert
Faurisson, was brought to
trial in France, he was con-
demned and punished.
However, there has been
an insidious growth in the
ideas propagated and
Faurisson's book even
enjoyed an inexplicable
preface by Noam Chomsky,
the maverick Jewish lin-
guistics genius, and re-
ceived some endorsement
from circles on both the ex-
treme right and the extreme
left.
The influence at present
is limited but if such lies
continue to be dissemi-
nated, they could receive
wider credence as the
Holocaust recedes into his-
tory.
A widely-publicized
controversy blew up
over allegations of offi-
cial anti-Semitism in
Argentina. The former
Buenos Aires newspaper
publisher, Jacobo
Timerman — who had
been a victim himself —
held that Jews in custody
as political prisoners
were singled out for par-
ticularly vicious treat-
ment. Others maintained
that Jews had , not been
arrested as Jews but as

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