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Jackson repudiates Farrakhan
remarks on Israel, Judaism
Washington (JTA) —
After months of mounting
controversy, Democratic
Presidential aspirant Jesse
Jackson disavowed last
week anti-Semitic and
anti-Israel remarks by
Black Islam Minister Louis
Farrakhan.
The disavowal was con-
tained in a statement from
Jackson, who was then in
Cuba, and his cam-
paign staff in Washington.
It came following a myriad
of denunciations of Far-
rakhan's remarks, first by
Jewish groups, then by
Catholic and black organ-
izations. A 95-0 vote in the
Senate last Thursday
unanimously condemned
Farrakhan for, among other
slurs, calling Judaism "a
gutter religion" during a
June 24 sermon in Chicago.
The Senate declared that
"there is no place in our
society or in our electoral
process, for hateful, bigoted
expressions of anti-Jewish
and racist sentiment, such
as those being made by
Louis Farrakhan and such
vicious expressions must be
condemned."
Jackson said, in his dis-
avowal, that "I refer specifi-
cally" to Farrakhan's com-
ments "describing the crea-
tion of Israel as an outlaw
act and his assertion that
nations that helped found
and now support Israel are
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President Luis Alberto
Monge of Costa Rica has af-
firmed his country's "free
and sovereign determina-
tion to honor Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel."
Monge made that state-
ment in a cable to Edgar
Bronfman, president of the
World Jewish Congress
(WJC). It was in response to
a cable of encouragement
Bronfman sent to the Costa
Rican president following
last month's walk-out by
Arab delegations at the con-
ference of the International
Labor Organization in
Geneva. The Arabs were
protesting Costa Rica's de-
cision to move its embassy
in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
Bronfman's message of
support stated that in re-
sponse to the "attempt at
political intimidation, six
million Jews in America
and all their friends in this
country as well as Jewish,
communities in 67 nations
throughout the world
applaud your courage, your
dignity, your resolve be-
havior as an outstanding
leader of the free world who
stands his ground in the
face of base threats."
criminals in the sight of al-
mighty God.
"I find such statements or
comments to be reprehensi-
ble and morally indefensi-
ble. I disavow such com-
ments and thoughts,"
Jackson said.
In Detroit, Jewish Com-
munity Council .President
David Lebenbon't issued a
statement welcoming
Jackson's repudiation of
Farrakhan. Jackson's
comments, according to
Lebenbom, "will go far
toward combatting the
emergence of bigotry in
American Presidental poli-
tics."
Meanwhile, members of
the Detroit City Council
faced a barrage of criticism
last weekend when it was
revealed that the council
unanimously passed a reso-
lution in May praising Far-
rakhan for furthering the
cause of civil rights. The
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resolution was passed be-
fore the Black Muslim
leader's disparaging re-
marks of June 24.
Following his return from
Cuba last week, Jackson
said he would like to visit
the Soviet Union, but ad-
mitted that no invitation
has been issued by the
Kremlin for such a visit.
In an interview last
weekend, the Democratic
Presidential candidate was
asked if he would try to free
Soviet dissident Andrei
Sakharov should he be
asked to visit Russia.
"I would," Jackson re-
plied. "I am quite concerned
about the issue of the free-
dom of Soviet Jewry. I think
it's very important, and one
of the vital issues of our
day." Although Sakharov is
married to a Jewish woman,
Yelena Bonner, the scien-
tist is not Jewish.
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media sources bitterly hos-
tile to Israel and its Jewish
supporters and often couch-
ing their hostility to Jews in
the imagery of traditional
anti-Semitism also exist
here."
He said Australian Jews
are also concerned over "the
increasing instances of ap-
parently unorganized
anti-Semitism, ranging
from hooligan style har-
rassment and abuse of
synagogue-goers from pass-
ing cars to swastika daub-
ings and instances of van-
dalism."
Liebler said he was "con-
vinced that such instances
are on the rise and repre-
sent the tip of an iceberg of
racial hatred which can
only be stirred during times
of rising unemployment and
if mainstream voices appear
to exploit fears of recent mi-
gration."
He added that "whether
these unorganized out-
bursts have in fact been
found by, or are even linked
to, such organized sources of
anti-Semitism as neo-Nazi
groups or radical Arab sym-
pathizers, or whether they
are linked to organized
anti-Asian racialist groups,
are matters of speculation
which the community must
further explore."
Liebler went on to say
that "in the contemporary
world, the Jewish commu-
nity generally has allies in
the governments of the
democracies, friends and
supporters in most
mainstream ethnic, reli-
gious and political groups,
and possible legal remedies
for instances of organized
anti-Semitism."
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Australian Jewry to hold
parley on world issues
Melbourne (JTA) — A
major Asia-Pacific Jewish
Colloquium will be held in
Singapore Sept. 11-12, the
first of its kind ever in_this
region, according to Isi Lei-
bler, President of the
Executive Council of Au-
stralian Jewry (ECAJ).
Leibler said, in a sum-
mary of the Semillar re-
leased last week, that the.
conference "will serve to
bring to the attention of Au-
stralian Jewry the impor-
tant role it will inevitably
and increasingly play in
world affairs."
Australia, with a popula-
tion of 14.09 million, is
home to an estimated
75,000 Jews, the largest
Jewish population in the
Asia-Pacific region.
"Australia, of course, con-
tains by far the largest, best
organized Jewish popula-
tion in the Asian Pacific
region and is much more
closely situated to East Asia
than is the United States. I
believe we have both the
opportunity and responsi-
bility to assist the smaller
Jewish communities of the
region and to work insofar
as we can to assist both the
Jewish people and for the
benefit of the State of Israel
in the Asia Pacific region,"
he said.
Nevertheless, Liebler ob-
served, "there is agreement
that anti-Semitism does
exist and may be on the rise.
Some of this renewed anti-
Semitism here," he said,
"represents the Australia
facet of the organized
ideological sources of the
extreme right and left
which exist around the
world, while church and
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Hanna Cohen
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