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This analysis is based, in part, on reporting by B'nai B'rith representa- tives in Paris and Geneva.) Not since the days of Adolf Hitler have the anti- Semitic themes of the genocidal Nazi propaganda machine been aired in- the West with such impunity. And, of all places, they are being aired in the public forums of the organizations created to overcome the Nazi legacy — the United Nations. There are very few states, no more than about 10 out of 158 UN members, that are involved in the perpetration of anti-Semitism. In fact, in 1984 this evil, which the UN was designed to combat, is largely the work of just two states — the Soviet Union and Libya. But a shocking complacency among the repreSentatives of Western European, the Commonwealth, and other democracies permits the bigots to deliver their in- citements to hatred in one forum after another without interruption or objection. The result has been pointed out in a letter to UN Secretary - General Javier Perez de Cuellar by Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN, Yehuda Blum. "There can be little doubt," SYNAGOGUE Kiddush honors octognarian Mrs. Sadie Betman will be honored on her 80th birthday at a kiddush Saturday at Cong. B'nai David. Mrs. Betman has two children, Eleanor Manela and Maurice Betman, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Family and friends are invited. She is active at the Oak Park senior citizens center and is a member of the Jewish Community Center. Anniversaries dinner event Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses will have a Late Family Worship Serv- ice on June 1, honoring members who will celebrate wedding anniversaries dur- ing the month of June. Serv- ices will commence at 8:15 p.m., followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper will officiate and Cantor Ben-Zion Lanxner will chant the liturgy. wrote Ambassador Blum," that the escalation of anti- Semitic rhetoric at the United Nations . . . has been largely responsible for the recrudescence of anti- Semitism worldwide and for the resulting numerous acts of anti-Jewish violence in recent years." Anti-Semitism has been around the UN for years. But it was not until the adoption on Nov. 10, 1975 of the infamous General As- sembly Resolution 3379 (linking Zionism with ra- cism) that the UN gave offi- cial sanction to anti- Semitism, as the great Soviet human rights cham- pion Andrei Sakharov noted at the time. Since that period, the problem has grown dramatically. The Nov. 10, 1975 General Assembly resolution linking Zionism with racism gave the UN's official sanction to anti-Semitism. It is well-known by now that Ambassador Ali Treiki of Libya accused Jews as a group in the General As- sembly on Dec. 8 of owning the pornographic opera- tions of New York, "exploit- ing the American people and trying to debase them. If we succeed in eliminating that entity," the former Li- byan foreign minister con- cluded, "we shall by the same token save the Ameri- can and European peoples." Among the assembled delegates, only Ambassador Blum and Constantin Dom- balis, representing the United States, bothered to protest. To his credit, Secretary-General de Cuel- lar issued a statement the next day in which he regret- ted "the use in the General Assembly of epithets and slurs of a racial, religious or personal nature, even in the heat of the debate." The Secretary-General ap- pealed to members "to ref- rain from language unbe- coming to serious interna- tional debate." But his appeal went un- heeded. At the February: March session of the UN's Commission on Human Rights, the Soviet and Li- byan delegates engaged again in racist rhetoric under the agenda item entitled "Measures to be taken against all totalita- rian . . . ideologies . ." After alleging at length common features of Zionism and Nazism, the Ukrainian delegate stated that whereas South Africa's white majority used apar theid to dominate th blacks, Israel with its theory of the "chosen people" adopted a policy by which those "belonging to the Jewish race" dominated the Arabs. V. A. Zorin, the chief Soviet delegate, whose speeches are usually fine tuned to the Communist Party line, repeatedly stated that Zionism is re- lated to Nazism. He claimed Zionists dwell at length on the victimization of the Jews during the Holocaust to obtain supports and to win sympathy. The Libyan representa- tive, who spoke after Zorin, described Zionism as a phi- losophy in which the Jews claim to be the chosen people of God. Byelorussian's The speech was similar to those of his Soviet colleagues. Responding to these "monstrous statements," the B'nai B'rith representa- tive at the commission ses- sion observed on Feb. 23 that they "reveal the tortu- ous thinking inspiring such demented slanders." Challenged by Israel's Ambassador in Geneva, Ephraim Dowek, Zorin was at pains to stress that his attacks on Zionism were in keeping with the General Assembly resolution on the subject. Once again, only the United States joined Israel in condemning these at- tacks on the Jewish religion and on the movement of Jews to live free in their own land. U.S. Ambassador Richard Schifter noted that "anti-Semitism has now be- come one of the established elements of Soviet policy . . . He referred very poin- tedly to the anti-Semitic remarks in the commission by the Soviet and Libyan delegates, differentiating between opposition to the political philosophy of Zionism and attacks on the right of Jews, like everyor else, to believe in and pru mote a liberating political philosophy of their own. Cataloging the various as- pects of officially sponsored Soviet anti-Semitism, Schifter concluded that "there is no doubt that Jews are today an outcast people in the Soviet Union for no reason other than they were born Jews." Returning to the subject of Zionism and Judaism during the religious in- tolerance debate in the Human Rights Commis- )