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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 "The most comfortable car in existence today." ,• 1 1 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 3384531 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 niemliers' bf 'LAbor f.7.7 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 • 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.