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January 15, 1982
Reveal Anti-Semitic
Upturges in Austria and Italy
Begin Stays Firm on
Sinai Compensation
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin
made it clear to his coalition partners Tuesday that
there will be no reassessment of the 4.4 billion Shekel
($250 million) compensation payment to the Sinai
settlers, authorized by the Cabinet last week, and that
he expects speedy approval- by the Knesset Finance
Committee.
Begin summoned the heads of the coalition factions to
his home to impress upon them that "the affair must be
over and done fast" because "it is not only a matter of
money, it is also the peace treaty with Egypt which is at
stake." He acted after the Finance Committee balked at
what several coalition members as well as the Labor
opposition consider an excessive sum likely to touch off a
new round of inflation.
The Cabinet approved the offer by a 5-4 vote last
Thursday despite opposition by Finance Minister
Yoram Aridor and Housing and Construction Minister
David Levy. Begin cast the tie-breaking vote. The Fi-
nance Committee members who saw him Tuesday said
they were impressed by his determination to pay the 4.4
billion Shekels without modifications or conditions.
Committee chairman Shiomo Lorincz said he ex-
pected approval within a week. But he indicated
that the committee.may insist that 20 percent of the
payment be made in government index-linked
bonds and at least part of the balance will be sub-
ject to income tax. He explained that the bonds
would be non-negotiable for five-10 years in order
to cushion the inflationaryimpact of the payment.
The Finance Committee membership is divided
evenly between the coalition and the opposition. The
outcome of its vote may hinge on the Tami faction, one of
Begin's coalition partners. The Tami representative on
the committee, Deputy Absorption Minister Aharon
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Uzan, said he would vote against the compensation
package.
Begin reportedly had harsh words for Tami on Tues-
day. He warned the faction to respect the Cabinet's deci-
sion. "Even a one vote margin is a majority," he said.
The settlers in Yamit and other northern Sinai com-
munities have not yet officially accepted the govern-
ment's offer and some complained that the compensa-
tion would be unfairly distributed with farmers receiv-
i ing larger sums than businessmen and householders.
The settlements must be abandoned by the time the
eastern third of Sinai is returned to Egypt in April.
While the settlers are still- threatening civil dis-
obedience, an added complication is the heavy in-
filtration of northern Sinai by Gush Emunim milit-
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By MONIKA BRENNER and REINHARD ENGEL
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VIENNA (JTA) — After 36 years of democratic government, a prospering economy and social and
political stability, anti-Semitic sentiments ranging from moderate to strong are still held by 80 percent of the
Austrian population. This phenomenon occurs in a country of 1.6 million where the Jewish community
numbers barely 8,000. And, paradoxically, one of the most popular politicians in Austria is Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky who is Jewish. Polls in Italy have shown similar results.
Anti-Semitism was recently measured by Dr. Hildegard Weiss of the Institute of Sociology at the
University of Vienna. She wrote a 200-page dissertation on the subject.
Weiss said there are roughly three sets of attitudes toward Jews in Austria. Only 20 percent of
the population is completely free of anti-Jewish prejudice she reported. "Those holding indifferent
to moderately strong anti-Semitic views comprise 60 percent and those with strong anti-Semitic
prfjudice 20 percent," she said.
The variations in the intensity of anti-Semitic views were demonstrated in the responses to the questin-
naire Weiss used in her study. Asked, "Should there be a limit placed on the amount of property and land Jews
can acquire," 20.5 percent replied affirmatively. Asked if they would oppose the marriage of their children
into a Jewish family, 22.5 percent of parents said they would. Well over a quarter of the respondents — 29.4
percent — said they would not object "if somebody around you talks disparagingly about Jews."
Weiss said the results of her survey corresponded to a similar one, she made in 1976. Weiss found
furthermore that there was no strong correlation between anti-Semitism and age or affluence as some
theories suggest. She pointed out that poverty has been largely eradicated in Austria so dislike of Jews cannot
be attributed to envy or to the search for a scapegoat for economic deprivation as was the case between the two
wars.
The most important factors in influencing anti-Semitic- prejudices are level of education and the opinions
of former or current peers and relatives, Weiss
said. People lacking higher education are consid-
erably more hostile toward Jews, she found. But
within families, prejudices seem to be passed from
generation to generation without any discernable
relation to sociological factors.
The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan De-
For example, Jews are still believed to con-
troit has responded to reports that several Michigan radio
trol
banks and financial institutions, when, in
stations carry the broadcasts of Liberty Lobby, a source of
fact, they are virtually non-existent in those
racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. The stations were
areas in Austria today.
listed in two 1981 radio logs published by the Liberty Lobby
There was a correlation between prejudice and
organization.
A recent background report from the Anti-Defamation
geography. Rural people tended to be more anti-
League of Bnai Brith describes the Liberty Lobby as "a
Semitic than city dwellers, but that corresponded
leading organization of the.political far, right, which seeks
to their relatively lower level of education, Weiss
to camouflage its extremism and anti-Semitism by present-
noted.
ing a facade of seeming respectability and by falsely flying
She observed that people with a university or
the conservative flag."
gymnasium (roughly equivalent to junior college)
The Council found that two of the listed stations,
education showed less hostility toward Jews. But
WOAK in Royal Oak and WABM in Alma, are not
this is due as much to social unacceptability as to
currently in existence. The remaining 12 stations were
their humanistic training, she said.
contacted by Council President Marian Shifman, who
expressed the Jewish community's offense at the re-
Intellectuals, public employees, teachers and
port that the broadcasts were being carried.
white collar workers would be breaking the rules
Four stations, WSRX - Grand Valley State College,
of their social class if they were openly anti-
WSGR - St. Clair County Community College, WPHS -
Semitic, according to Weiss..Consequently, a high
Warren Consolidated Schools and WAHS - Avondale
percentage of those people simply refused to an-
School District, informed the Council that they receive the
swer questions_ which pin-pointed the extent of
tapes but do not carry the programs.
JCCouncil Fighting
Lobby's Broadcasts
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500 Volunteers Man AJC Super Sunday Telephones
Some 500 volunteers are expected to be
c ----and Sunday for Detroit's biggest tele-
e drive of the year for the
Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emer-
gency Fund. Balloons, banners, posters
and oversized rep-
LR St,
licas of telephones
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decorate
will
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the United Hebrew
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Schools for this
annual
second
Sunday
Super
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event.
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Among
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workers, between 9:30 a.m. and 8 p.m., will
be several local personalities. Florine
Mark Ross, chairman of the celebrities
committee for Super Sunday, said they will
include Sonya Friedman, host of her own
talk shows on WDIV -TV and WXYZ-AM
radio; Jeffrey Cohen and Michael Boren,
members of the University of Michigan
football team; and others.
As a special feature on Super Sunday,
Chairman Janice Schwartz will be inter-
viewed during the hour-long WJBK-TV
"Sunday in Detroit" program, 11:30 a.m.
on Ch. 2. Her interviewer will be Shelby
Tauber, a regular, host on the show and
On Super Sunday, nearly every
Jewish man and woman in the met-
ropolitan Detroit area will be called
and asked to participate in the 1982
Campaign.
M. August, Ruth Broder, Marcy Feldman,
Michael S. Feldman, Dr. Conrad L. Giles,
Carolyn Greenberg, Lawrence S. Jackier,
Dr. Richard Krugel, Ellen Labes, James
Labes, Janet Levine, Sherri Lumberg,
Robert H. Naftaly, Ronald H. Riback,
Cecille Raichlen, Neil - A. Satovsky, D.
Lawrence Sherman and Jane Sherman.
In Detroit, persons who will be briefers
for the Super Sunday volunteers were
themselves briefed at a special . session
Thursday. Under chairmen Linda Lee and
Sally Krugel, the worker training commit-
tee briefers are Peter Alter, Susan Alter-
man, Marjory Ansell, Doris August, James
Decorations chairman Cheryl Guyer and
her committee prepared "Phone Central"
for Super Sunday. The committee included
Annie Cohen, Penny Deitch, Barbara
Eisenberg, Gail Kaplan, Margie Krasnick
and Trudy Wineman.
president of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion Women's Division. Sol Cicurel is also
chairman of Super Sunday.
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