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support Jews had given to black can-
didates for mayor in Los Angeles and
Chicago and Philadelphia. We rec-
ognized the contribution he made by
motivating many thousands of new
voters to register," Bookbinder said.
Nevertheless, he continued,
Jackson's failure to repudiate the
support of Farrakhan and his pro-
Palestine Liberation Organization
posture in the Arab-Israeli dispute
continue to "present problems."
According to Bookbinder,
Jackson "must be willing to ac-
knowledge that.Jews have been, and
continue to be, strong and reliable
allies in the struggles for human
rights and social justice, and he
should recognize that his campaign
may have contributed ominously to
divisiveness and poses a threat to
American pluralism"
Bookbinder indicated that
neither- of the two major parties
should take Jewish support for
granted. If the choice in November is
between former Vice President Wal-
ter Mondale and President Reagan,
Jewish voters can be confident that
both are "decent, sympathetic,, sensi-
tive leaders who understand the cen-
tral concerns of Jews on such matters
as anti-Semitism, Israeli security
and the rights of Jews in the Soviet
Union and other areas around the
world," Bookbinder said.
By and large, he observed,
Jewish voters "will want to hear how
the candidates will assure further
and stronger economic recovery, how
they will deal with America's crime
and urban decay problems, how they
will use America's strength and
influence in the world to advance
human rights but without undue in-
terference in other nations' affairs."
The Jewish community, he
added, also awaits intelligent discus-
sion on immigration policy, women's
rights and feminization of poverty,
church-state issues, affirmative ac-
tion, energy, defense policy and edu-
cation.
Progressives, Kach barred from elections
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tolerance, and they were killed be-
cause across the boundaries of race
and religion, they were pushing back
the walls of racism and prejudice . . ."
The San Francisco Chapter of
the American Jewish Committee was
told last week that American Jews
"do not want to be talked to as paroc-
hial special pleaders" by candidates
in this year's election campaign. Ac-
cording to Hyman Bookbinder,
Washington representative of the
AJCommittee, American Jews are
first and foremost concerned with
"what is best for the protection of our
democratic, pluralistic society and
what kind of foreign policy is best for
America and the free world.
He added, however, that the
Jewish reaction to the candidacy of
Jesse Jackson, and to the various
candidates' positions on Israel was
natural and understandable. Jews,
he said, will closely observe the
Democratic convention, to be held in
San Francisco next month, to note
whether Jackson will help promote
intergroup harmony and to see what
stand will be taken on the Middle
East.
The AJCommittee official de-
cried the "exaggerations and distor-
tions" that he said had characterized
public discussion of the Jackson can-
didacy. But, he noted, Jews continue
to have a special interest in that can-
didacy. "How could they not," he
asked, "when they have been con-
fronted for the first time in recent
memory with an aspirant for the
Presidency whose record includes
numerous instances of insensitivity
and even hostility to basic Jewish
interests?"
Bookbinder stressed however
that American Jews have an "abid-
ing interest" in avoiding a clash with
the black community and in affirm-
ing Rev. Jackson's right to-seek the
nomination.
"We repudiated the senseless at-
tacks on him by the Jewish Defense
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Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Central Elections Commit-
tee voted 17-12 Monday
night to bar the Progressive
List for Peace, a coalition of
Israeli Arabs and Jews,
from participation in the
July 23 Knesset elections.
The vote, taken at about
midnight after hours of de-
bate, followed by a day the
committee's decision, by an
18-10 vote, to exclude Rabbi
Meir Kahane's right-wing
Kach party from the elec-
tions. Supreme Court Jus-
tice Gavriel Bach, chairman
of the committee, abstained
in the voting as did three
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Alignment. Bach said that
material about the faction
submitted with its applica-
tion was ambivalent.
Kahane has said that he
will appeal the decision on
his group to the Supreme
Court.
Meanwhile, Bach said he
was influenced to abstain by
the Progressive List repre-
sentative's statements to
the committee criticial of Is-
rael's Proclamation of Inde-
pendence, its Law or Return
and his equivocal position
toward the Palestine Liber-
ation Organization. On the
other hand, Bach said, there
were factors in favor of the
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new faction. The National
Religious Party and the
Aguda Israel, which had
supported Kahane's list,
voted to bar the Progressive
List. •
The list, headed by an
Arab nationalist attorney,
Mohammed Miari, has been
under scrutiny by security
agencies for some time be-
cause of its advocacy of a
Palestinian state. But De-
fense Minister Moshe Arens
has declined to outlaw it,
'which he could do on na-
tional security grounds
under the emergency regu-
lations of the old Palesti-
nin Mandate.