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Leibler, president of the
Executive Council of Au-
stralian Jewry, is a member
of the World Jewish Con-
gress govetning board.
Pratt, who is active in the
United Israel Appeal-Keren
Hayesod, also is a .co-
chairman of the WJC Inter-
national Institute of Jewish
Affairs.
In addition to being the
first conference of its type to
be held in Australia, the
seminar represented a
number of other "firsts" for
Australian Jewry. It was
the first public project of the
recently formed Australian
Institute of Jewish Affairs,
a privately funded organ-
ization modeled on the WJC
Institute in London. Its aim
is to co-ordinate research on
anti-Semitism and prej-
udice in Australia and to
provide a forum for debate
on related issues.
The seminar also was the
first occasion in Australia
in which rabbis joined
Jesuit fathers, Catholic
theologians, Anglican
priests and Unitarian
Church ministers on the
same platform to discuss
Christianity and anti-
Semitism.
Although there was gen-
eral agreement that the
amount of anti-Semitism in
Australia Was and is very
low by international
standards, some speakers
pointed out that Australia
was not immune to the dis-
turbing growth of anti-
Semitism found elsewhere.
Dr. H. Ifilbinstein of De-
akin University, Mel-
bourne, noted that ex-
tremist groups on the anti-
Semitic far right, the anti-
Zionist far left, and some
mainstream churches
friendly to the PLO and hos-
tile to Israel, provided the
current sources of Austra-
lian anti-Semitism.
There has also been a re
ported increased in inci-
dents of vocal abuse, swas-
tika daubings, and even
physical violence against
Jews in known Jewish
neighborhoods in Mel-
bourne.
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Australia parley probes bias
Melbourne (JTA) — An
international seminar on
"Anti-Semitism and
Human Rights" concluded
here this week with warn-
ings from several speakers
on the "trans-ideological
convergence" between ex-
treme right and extreme
left in contemporary anti-
Semitism.
The seminar, sponsored
by the University of Mel-
bourne and the Australian
Institute of Jewish Affairs,
brought together interna-
tional scholars and Austra-
lian experts in the first such
seminar held in this coun-
try.
Among the overseas
guests were the Chief Rabbi
of the British Common-
Immanuel
wealth,
Zwi
Jakobovits;
Werblowsky, professor of
comparative religion at the
Hebrew Univ.ersity; Prof.
Itamar Rabinovich, head of
the Dayan Center of Middle
Eastern Affairs, Tel Aviv
University; Emanuel Lit-
vinoff, Anglo-Jewish writer
and authority on Soviet
Jewry; Dr. Stephen Roth,
director of the Institute of
- Jewish Affairs, London; and
Shimon Samuels, director of
the Paris office of the
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith.
Papers were sent by a
number of invitees who
could not attend. They in-
cluded Fr. Allan Gerson,
special assistant to the U.S.
permanent representative
at the United Nations; Dr.
William Korey, director, in-
ternational policy research,
B'nai B'rith International;
and Abraham Foxman,
associate national director
of the ADL.
The two-day conference
discusged the historical con-
temporary dimensions of in-
ternational Anti-Semitism,
neo-Nazi movements, the
emergence of anti-Zionism,
the role of the Soviet Union,
relationships with the
Christian churches, the Is-
lamic revival attitudes in
the Arab world and what
was called the problem of
the United Nations.
In the session dealing
with the "the Australian
experience" leading Austra-
lian lawyers examined pro-
posals now before the Au-
stralian Parliament for
legislation making incite-
ment to racial hatred and
group libel an offense.
Special attention was
given to the "new re-
visionism," the claims by
the neo-Nazi right and its
pseudo-academic suppor-
ters that the Holocaust
never occurred.
The co-chairman and
founders of the Australian
Institute, Isi Leibler and
Richard Pratt, said they
were greatly encouraged by
the unexpectedly high de-
gree of interest the seminar
had aroused in Australia.
Friday, June 22, 1984
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3 agencies support fill rate
for U.S. petroleum reserve
New York — The Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, the
American Jewish Congress
and the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith urged
the Administration and
Congress to maintain the
strategic petroleum reserve
supply level at 186,000
barrels per day.
The Administration has
proposed that the fill rate be
reduced from the current
186,000 to 145,000 barrels
each day.
In a joint statement, the
groups declared it essential
for the U.S. "to develop a
clearly defined and equita-
ble policy concerning use of
the strategic petFoleum re-
serve in the event of a possi-
ble emergency," adding that
the reserve " is only one
element in a necessary
coordinated international
effort to cope with possible
disruption of oil supply."
The statement was signed
by Howard I. Friedman,
president of the American
Jewish Committee; Theo-
dore R. Mann, president of
the American Jewish Con-
gress; and Kenneth J. Bial-
kin, immediate past na-
tional chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith and newly
elected president of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations.
They asserted: "The cur-
rent warnings about an oil
cut-off as a result of the
Iran-Iraq War underscore
the need for the. U.S. to be
adequately prepared.
Therefore we urge the U.S.
and its industrial allies,
who are far more dependent
on Persian Gulf oil than is
the U.S., to intensify their
deliberations to produce
agreement on a timely and
effective contingency plan."
In order to stem any spi-
raling of oil prices caused by
a possible oil supply shor-
tage, the three spokesmen
suggested that "the U.S.
should be prepared to make
early and aggressive use of
the strategic petroleum re-
serve," mentioning the sale
of options on domestic re-
serves as one means to get
oil into the market.
The heads of the three na-
tional Jewish organizations
urged Congress also to pass
provisions offering finan-
cial assistance for the el-
derly poor and- for low-
income families in the event
of higher oil prices.
Former envoy
named president
of Haifa U.
Haifa — Ephraim Evron,
a former Israeli ambassador
to the United States, was
installed as the fourth
president of Haifa Univer-
sity earlier this month.
Evron succeeds Joseph
Teicher, who resigned froin
the post for health reasons.
Evron served as Israel's
envoy to the U.S. from 1978
to 1982. Prior to his stint in
Washington, Evron was Is-
rael's ambassador to
Canada and Director-
General of the Foreign
Ministry.
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