United Nations Campaign Against Israel Outlined
NEW YORK — A Heritage Foundation expert on the United Nations has charged
the Arab states and their Third World and Eastern-bloc allies with engaging in a
"systematic" campaign to discredit and isolate Israel in the UN, and said that despite
U.S. opposition the situation is growing worse each year.
In a report released at a luncheon hosted by the American Jewish Congress, Juliana
Geran Pion also claims there has been a parallel, and equally successful, campaign to
give UN legitimacy to the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization.
Dr. Pion, a refugee from Communist Romania educated in the United States
Sensations
as Deterrents
to Most Amicable
U.S.-Israel
Relations
and a veteran UN-watcher, says the degree to which Israel dominates the UN
agenda is remarkable. Virtually all of the UN's official machinery has been used
in the anti-Israel campaign, she says, and virtually all of the UN's agencies have
participated in the attacks.
"Of the Security Council's 88 sessions last year, 46 were on topics related to Israel. In
the General Assembly, debates on the Middle East consumed nearly one-third of the
delegates' time and led to 44 resolutions. The number of times the General Assembly
(Continued on Page 22)
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Commentary, Page 2
of Jewish Events
Battered
Ramparts
as Warnings
of Urgent Need
of Unified Action
in Defense
of Israel
Editorial, Page 4
Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co.
VOL. LXXXIII, No.. 17
17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833
$15 Per Year: This Issue 35c
June 24, 1983
Andropov's Anti-Zionist Unit
Signals Harsh. Soviet Tactics
Syria Tells Terrorists
to Punish Lebanese
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Defense Minister Moshe
Arens accused Syria of doing its utmost to topple the gov-
ernment of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. He also
rejected demands for the unilateral withdrawal of Israel
forces from Lebanon.
The New York Times reported last week that the offi-
cial Syrian government newspaper, Al Thawra, called for
terrorists to wage war against Gemayel's government be-
cause the Lebanese parliament endorsed the troop with-
drawal agreement with Israel.
Appeaing before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee, Arens confirmed that the
redeployment of Israeli troops in Lebanon is under
consideration. He said this would not be the same as
unilateral withdrawal, proposed by the Labor Align-
ment.
A precondition for any redeployment would be guaran-
tees that the areas evacuated by Israel will not be occupied
by Syrian or Palestine Liberation Organization forces,
Arens said.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Voice of Israel
Radio that Israel would have no choice but to redeploy in
Lebanon if the Syrians persist in their refusal to pull their
own troops out of the country. Israeli officials believe how-
ever that American diplomatic efforts may still succeed in
convincing Syria to withdraw:
American sources said there have been no formal con-
sultations on a possible Israeli redeployment although
Shamir's remarks were considered "the strongest signal
yet" that a redeployment is imminent.
Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres told the
Knesset committee that an Israeli pullback to the
Awali River line, north of Sidon, was necessary with-
out delay. Arens responded that the situation in
Lebanon was not as "black" as Peres painted it.
(Continued on Page 12)
By ALLAN L. KAGEDAN
—
American Jewish Committee
NEW YORK — On June 6, the "Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public" held its first press
conference in Moscow. Leaders of the committee stated that those Soviet Jews who wished to emigrate had
already left, that Zionist propaganda had fabricated the notion of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and
that Zionism and Nazism were indistinguishable.
Two months earlier, on April 1, eight Soviet citizens had issued an appeal calling for the establishment
of a committee to combat Zionism and to dispute the claim that anti-Semitism exists in the Soviet Union.
The committee was formed officially on April 21.
Creation of an anti-Zionist committee signals a shift in Soviet policy toward Soviet Jews.
Under Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet conduct, based on concern for Western trade credits and the
transfer of technology from West to East, facilitated bargaining for Soviet Jewish emigration.
Yuri Andropov seems to be taking a new approach to issues involving Soviet nationalities,
emphasizing more forcibly the importance of assimilating all groups, including those with
foreign connections.
Andropov's approach reverses emigration policy, which has been based on the humanitarian principle
of reunification of families, endorsed by the Helsinki Final Act, and on tacit recognition of ties between
Soviet citizens and their ethnic homelands. This is particularly significant for Soviet Jews, who had been
issued visas to join family members in Is-
rael.
The Soviet leader's determination to
cut links between Soviet Jews and the
West was demonstrated most recently in
early June, when the late government-
NEW YORK — The historic rivalry between Lubavitch and
Hasidic Rivalry Turns
Violent in Brooklyn
Satmar Hasidim, now living in areas of Brooklyn, has apparently
erupted into violence in recent weeks. Two members of the
Lubavitcher group have been attacked, allegedly by Satmar
members.
In the most recent incident, a 36-year-old former Satmar
rabbi who became a follower of Lubavitch in recent years was
attacked Monday on his way to morning prayers. The rabbi,
Mendel Wechter, was thrown into a van, beaten, and had his
beard shaved.
According to a Lubavitch spokesman in Detroit, Rabbi
Wechter suffered a broken hand, a broken foot and a gash on his
neck which narrowly missed his esophagus.
The spokesman said Rabbi Wechter, head of a yeshiva
for gifted youth in Williamsburg, the Brooklyn section
where the Satmar live, had been harassed for several years
(Continued on Page 3)
(Continued on Page 8)
* * *
Editor's note: Allan Kagedan,
author of this analysis, is a research
analyst in the Foreign Affairs Depart-
ment of the American Jewish Commit-
tee in New York.
He is also a doctoral candidate in
Soviet affairs at Columbia University.
This analysis was prepared in col-
laboration with David Geller, director of
special projects for the Foreign Affairs
Department of the American Jewish
Committee.
Sixty . Years Since the Death of Herzl's Partner: Max Nordau
World Zionist Press Service
By DR. DAVID GEFFEN
JERUSALEM — "His oratory is superb; his master mind is aided by a silvery tongue, his
elocution perfect, his sentences clear, logical sublime. He spoke with conviction as an historian, as a
physiologist, as a poet and as a Jew."
Who was the personality described in these glowing terms by an observer at the First Zionist
Congress in Basle in 1897? He was Max Nordau, the Zionist individual who worked closer than
anyone else with Herzl in bringing the Zionist movement into being in its formative years. This year
marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Max Nordau. Though he sought to remain out of the
limelight, his great love for the Jewish people and his contribution to laying the foundations of
Zionism has given him a place of honor in Zionist annals.
Born in 1849 in Budapest as Simon Maximillian Suedfeld, the son of Rabbi Gabriel
Suedfeld, Nordau was given an intensive Jewish education and, according to his biog-
raphers, remained an observant Jew until his 18th year. His interestes then turned
elsewhere.
He earned an MD degree at the local university and at the age of 31 settled in Paris as a
practicing physician. Parallel to his medical studies, he developed his journalistic talents, writing for
one of the leading papers in the city. He was also a correspondent for newspapers in Berlin, Vienna
and Buenos Aires.
(Continued on Page 24)
—
417,A-
2
MAX NORDAU
1849 —1923