THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

World Anti-Semitism Topic of WUPJ

PARIS (JTA) — How who had recently corn-
serious is anti-Semitism in pleted a swing through
Western Europe? Does West Germany, The
neo-Nazism pose a threat to Netherlands and France.
democratic values in the Daniel, a New Yorker
European Economic Corn- fluent in several European
munity (EEC) countries? languages, said bluntly:
These questions were the "Anti-Semitism has resur-
subject of sharp debate last faced in Europe. The at-
week at the annual meeting tacks have not stopped in
of the governing body of the the past year. On the con-
World Union for Progress- trary, they've increased. We
ive Judaism (WUPJ), the are very, very concerned."
international movement of
Reform Judaism.
Daniel said the WUPJ
Simone Weil, a Jewish had chosen France for its
survivor of Auschwitz who annual meeting this year
now serves as president of for the first time "to man-
the European Parliament, ifest our concern about the
told the WUPJ: "We must rise in anti-Semitic attacks
not be misled by interna- in Europe." Some 110 repre-
tional acts of terrorism that sentatives took part in the
may come from the extreme meeting of the WUPJ,
right or extreme left. We which represents Reform
must not blame a nation for Jews in 27 countries. •
these acts. If we do, we be:
In her address to the
come victims of a provoca- meeting, Ms. Weil
tion and put ourselves out- cautioned that "Jews should
side our national corn- not view France as an anti-
munities." Semitic nation." She
But a more pessimistic downplayed reports of ris-
position was expressed ing neo-Nazi sentiment in
by Gerard Daniel, Western Europe, asserting
president of the WUPJ, that these were "fringe"

Cabinet Aide Facing Charge

JERUSALEM — Cabinet sions in the Palestinian
Secretary Arye Naor faces autonomy talks.
civil service charges next
Carter reportedly told
month for improperly dis-
closing information about a Schmidt that he was being
hampered
in his 1980 elec-
disputed conversation be-
tween
former
U.S. tion effort because of his
need
for
Jewish
support.
President Jimmy Carter
and West German Chancel- When Schmidt replied that
he
was
also
facing
an elec-
lor Helmut Schmidt.
Naor reportedly gave the tion battle, Carter was re-
ported to have said, "Yes,
information to Die Welt
correspondent Raanan but you don't have any
Jews."
Lurie in written farm in an
effort to prove his writing
Political Officers
ability in order to get a\job
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
with Die Welt.
Labor Party newspaper
The story had alrena
Dever
reports that one-
been disclosed and re-
third of the 600 Israelis who
butted in the Israeli
have held the rank of
press. According to the
lieutenant colonel or higher
story Carter had asked
Schmidt to press Israeli since the 1948 War of Inde-
pendence
have entered poli-
Prime Minister Menahem
tics at one time or another.
Begin for Israeli conces-

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groups whose views did not
represent more than a
handful of Europeans.
And she cautioned
against any action by
Jewish groups that
would result in "isolat-
ing" the Jewish commu-
nity from other citizens
"in lands where we are
fully integrated."
Daniel drew a distinction
between The Netherlands
and the rest of Western
Europe. He reported that
Queen Juliana had
attended a meeting in
Amsterdam marking the
50th anniversary of the Re-
form movement in that
country and that the mayor
of Amsterdam as well as the
Dutch minister of justice
had taken part.
"All of the Dutch officials
with whom I met — as well
as the leaders of the Reform
movement in The Nether-
lands — voiced confidence
that anti-Semitism and
neo-Nazism were not prob-
lems in the country. " he
said.
As for France, West Ger-
many, Austria and Bel-
gium, however, Daniel
added, "the reports we have
received from our delegates
indicate the problem is
growing worse."
As a result, the WUPJ
delegates adopted a
series of resolutions urg-
ing European govern-
ments to "repudiate with
the utmost clarity and de-
termination . . . at-
tempted revivals of an
anti-Semitic past, which
disfigures the history of
Western civilization" and
urged "our brothers and
sisters of the Christian
churches and all organ-
izations devoted to the in-
tegrity and welfare of
humanity to use all their
strength to uproot the
evils of anti-Semitism."
Bombing attacks against
three European synagogues
have killed eight people and
injured 131 others since Oc-
tober 1980.

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Israeli Author
Given French
Literary Award

PARIS (JTA) — David
Shahar, a 55-year-old Is-
raeli author, has been
awarded the Midicis Prize
for Foreign Literature, one
of France's best known
literary awards.
The jury singled out one
of his books, "The Day of the
Countess," which has ap-
peared in French transla-
tion, to pay tribute to the
literary quality and poetic
style of the Jerusalem-born
writer.
"The Day of the Coun-
tess" is a story of a group of
Jews, Christians and Mos-
lems, all former friends,
caught in the turmoil of the
Arab riots of 1936 in
Jerusalem. The story spans
a week in the lives of the
group torn apart by the
events. Shahar, who
teaches literature at the
Hebrew University, has
published 15 books, five of
which have appeared in
English and French trans-
lations.

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