THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 28, 1983 21
UJA Year Is Inaugurated
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needs and the problems in-
volving Russian Jewry and
the demands for the freeing
of those held hostage. Spe-
cial concern was expressed
over the incarceration of
Yosef Begun and the as-
sembly joined in protests
over treatment accorded
him in the USSR.
Assembly procedures
were guided under the
of UJA
direction
Chairman
Regional
Lawrence Jackier. His
several introductory
speeches as well as the
evaluative of the com-
mitments involved in the
UJA planning incorpo-
rated the basic objectives
of the many aspects of
cultural and philan-
thropic work supported
by the United. Jewish
Appeal.
A major address was de-
livered at the Sabbath
dinner, Friday night, by
Prof. Irwin Cotler, professor
of law at McGill University
in Montreal _who is on sab-
batical from that institution
and currently is a visiting
professor at Harvard Uni-
versity.
In his talk about what he
called the Jewish condition
and the human condition,
Dr. Cotler said that Jews
are being "deligitimized" as
a group internationally.
Specifically, he cited the
missing Jews in Argentina,
the harassment of Jews in
the Soviet Union, the mis-
treatment of Jews in Syria
and the plight of the Ethio-
pian Jews, the Falashas.
In the case of the
Falashas, Cotler said they
were suffering under double
jeopardy. "They're not ac-
cepted by blacks because
they're Jewish and they're
not accepted by Jews be-
cause they're black."
Cotler continued his
listing of what he called
"assaults" on Jews
around the world, and
said it was happening to
the Jews "not for what
they do but what they
are.
"What concerns me is not
the state of Jews, but the
state of the world inhabited
by Jews."
He cited the United Na-
tions and its mistreatment
of Israel and the "political
silence" regarding that
situation as an example.
Dr. Cotler referred to
Raoul Wallenberg, a
Swedish non-Jew credited
with saving the lives of tens
of thousands of Hungarian
Jews during World War II,
"who is condemned for sav-
ing Jews" while "Nazi war
criminals in Detroit and
everywhere are allowed to
walk around free."
He alluded to how the
language of the Nazis is
being used today against
Jews, and gave several
examples of what he
called "Holocaust
metaphors."
In the case of the plight of
Syrian Jews, Dr. Cotler said
there is continuing surveil-
lance conducted by the Sy-
rians against them, to the
point where Palestinians
are being enlisted to live
among the Syrian Jews to
spy on them.
The Syrian Jews have "no
rights but continued false
imprisonment," Dr. Cotler
remarked.
"What we are witnessing
today," Dr. Cotler said," is a
new anti-Jewishness in our
time. Discrimination
against or denial of a na-
tional particularity is
everywhere, especially
where Jews are concerned."
In his forceful and spi-
rited talk, peppered with
French, Hebrew and
Yiddish, Dr. Cotler as-
serted "a world not safe
for democracy won't be
safe for Jews and a world
not safe for Jews is not
safe for democracy.
"Israel and the Jewish
people are not just a Jewish
cause, they are a just
cause," Cotler said.
On the topic of Soviet
Jewry — Dr. Cotler is a
member of the defense
counsel for imprisoned
Jewish refusnik Anatoly
Shcharansky — he said that
newly interned Soviet re-
fusnik Begun "is a symbol of
the Catch-22 of Gulag jus-
tice."
"I would hate for any of us to
regret not having helped
Carl Levin and Rudy Bos-
chwitz. They do more than
anyone of us off the floor can
do (for Israel)."
Dan Halprin, economic
minister, Israel Embassy,
who joined Dine on the
brunch dais, also had sev-
eral remarks about the
Mideast situation.
According to Halprin, the
"Marines are in Lebanon
not to defend Israel, but be-
cause there is American and
free world interest in trying
to stabilize the area."
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He related an incident
when he visited a Mos-
cow synagogue and met
the elderly Jews there.
He said he met a man in
his 80s who was planning
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his "brothers and sis-
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brothers and sisters
were, the man cried,
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Cotler added, "The code
words of Jewish history are
the same — We are each the
guarantors of each other's
destiny, wherever we are."
He concluded his talk
with the exclamation "Am
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At Sunday's brunch,
Thomas A. Dine, executive
director of AIPAC, talked
about U.S. policy in the
Middle East.
In his remarks, Dine
said, "The primacy of
U.S. foreign policy in the
Mideast starts with U.S.-
-
Israeli relations."
Dine said that in Congress
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moyni-
han brought to the floor of
Congress the notion of mov-
ing the U.S. Embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Ac-
cording to Dine, Moynihan
got a promise from Sens.
Charles Percy and
Chaiborne Pell to hold hear-
ings on the issue.
"I urge all of you to go to
your legislators and tell
them to pin Percy down for a
debate on the issue," Dine
said.
On the current activities
in the race for the
Presidency, Dine said "We
have to be involved in those
primaries.
"The Senate is the key.
The Jewish lobby must
help those who are pro-
Israel to become elected
officials."
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