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Are Israeli Officials Covering Up S. American Anti-Semitism?
By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
"wave of violent anti-
Semitism" has been sweep-
ing across a number of coun-
tries in Latin America these
past two months. But the Is-
raeli Foreign Ministry and
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its embassies, and the' offi- -the war in Lebanon and the
cial Jewish organizations in difficult economic situation
the affected countries, are in Mexico, anti-Semitic in-
deliberately seeking to play citement has arisen, fanned
down and hush up the state in part by the media.
of indcidents.
"Anti-Semitic slogans
This, in essence, is the have been plastered on
conclusion of a report in the synagogues and cemeteries,
Labor-affiliated newspaper and appear at some key
Davar by its Washington crossroads. Threats have
correspondent, Yosef Priel. been made against the lives
He wrote the report after a of individual Jews and
tour of Mexico, Venezuela bomb-threats have been re-
and Colombia.
ceived by Jewish institu-
There was no official tions. (According to one ver-
reaction in Jerusalem to sion a bomb was actually
Priel's allegations. But pri- found on one occasion.)"
vately one Foreign Ministry
Priel said that Mexican
official observed that Jewry has decided on two
neither Premier Menahem immediate steps: youth are
Begin nor Foreign Minister being trained in unarmed
Yitzhak Shamir were the self-defense techniques, and
kind of Israeli leaders who professional guards have
would deliberately hush up been hired for Jewish in-
outbreaks of anti-Semitism. stitutions.
Writing about Mexico,
"Advice has been circu-
Priel pointed out that the lated to all the Jews: at the
Mexican Jewish commu- upcoming (High Holy Days)
nity, which numbers festivals only those specifi-
some 50,000 lives in fear. cally interested in praying
"Against the backdrop of should attend the syna-
gogue services — without
wives and children — so as
to avoid large gatherings
that could serve as targets
for attack."
Most of the press, Priel
wrote, published a
statement by intellectu-
als and leftwingers de-
crying "Nazi-Zionism" in
Lebanon and the "Pales-
tinian holocaust." Jewish
representatives try their
best to counter these
canards, but "the Israel
Embassy does not par-
ticularly speak out
against the anti-Semitic
manifestation, for fear of
prejudicing the impor-
master charge
tant ties between the two
countries," Priel stated.
Meanwhile, many of the
Jews "are sitting on suit-
cases in case the situation
worsens," he added.
"They would move out to
the U.S."
Writing about the situa-
tion in Venezuela, where
there are some 20,000 Jews,
Priel described a growing
htimber of anti-Semitic in-
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cidents: stones thrown at
synagogues, a swastika
painted on the Chief Rabbi's
car, graffiti such as "Jewish
murderers" on the streets.
the same throughout the • nomic situation, have com-
continent. PLO sympathy bined to sharply increase
plus Arab money and influ- anti-Semitism in Latin-
ence, plus a worsening eco- America.
The worst incident, he
said, took place last month
when 20 young people broke
into an official building
which houses the Israel
Embassy and plastered the
walls with anti-Israel slo-
gans. Here, too, Priel wrote,
the press plays a leading
role in the incitement to
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic
sentiments. He cited a car-
toon in Montevideo's lead-
ing daily, El Nacional.
showing Hitler saluting and
shouting, "Viva Israel." •
The Israel Embassy and
the local Jewish community
are more active here than in
Mexico in combatting this
phenomenon, "but here, too,
there is trepidation as the
High Holy Days approach,"
Priel wrote.
In Colombia there is "a
small but very rich
Jewish community" of
some 7,000 persons, he
said. In Bogota, the capi-
tal; the authorities have
kept any latent anti-
Semitism under control.
But a pro-PLO demon-
stration in the oil town of
Barranquilla turned
ugly, with cries of "death
to the Jews."
The local Jewish commu
nity was thoroughly
frightened, too frightened to
meet with the Israeli Am-
bassador for fear of further
unpleasantness, Priel
wrote. "But at the insis-
tence of the Ambassador,
the meeting took place," he
reported. "The Ambassador
also protested to the gov-
ernment about the anti-
Semitic outburst in Bar-
ranquilla."
Priel said Israeli dip-
lomats and Jewish officials
in these three countries told
him the situation was much
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NEW YORK — The
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President Reagan to press
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