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The OLDE Building Grand Rapids, MI 49503 OR 735 Griswold Street 6346 Orchard Lake Road Detroit, Michigan 48226 West Bloomfield, Michigan 48033 government and its policies in the Middle East, particu- larly its "Peace for Galilee" operation. These attacks, couched in political terms, invariably spill over into attacks against Jews. For many Swiss, Israel and Jews are one entity, two sides of the same coin, and an attack against one is simultane- ously an attack on the other; a criticism of Israel is also used as an excuse to criticize Jews in this country for any domestic problem. Ironically, the Swiss were never known to be particu- larly anti-Jewish. One of the reasons is that the Swiss Jewish community is small and Swiss Jews maintain a very low profile. There are some 20,000 Jews in Swit- zerland of a total population of some 6.3 million. The largest Jewish communities are in Geneva and in Zurich. But the war in Lebanon brought whatever un- conscious anti-Semitism there was to the fore and made implicit anti- Semitism explicit. This development is across the board, from left to right, from politicians to the average citizen. The Socialist Party in Geneva joined forces with the Communist Party to col- lect signatures for a petition requesting that the Swis's government reconsider its deal to buy arms from Israel and to break diplomatic re- lations with the Jewish state. In addition, the Com- munist Party published an article attacking the president of the State of Is- rael Bonds and the United Jewish Appeal, saying that he was collecting money for Premier Menahem Begin and his government and therefore was acting against the best interests of Switzerland. The war in Lebanon has also taken its toll among those who supported Israel. A woman phoned the Israeli delegation to the United Nations in Geneva and asked to speak to an Israeli official. 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