THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 21, 1984
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the USSR so that they and Soviet
Jews could use them together in
ritual observance.
Moscow agents also entered the
home of two other Jewish ac-
tivists, each time announcing
that they expected to find narco-
tics. In one home, only the vigi-
lance of the activist's children
,-‘=- prevented the planting and later
i "discovery"
' ,. discovery" of drugs by the
1' authorities. In the other apart-
ment, police confiscated a mez-
zuza and tefillin, claiming that
narcotics for ritual use might be
secreted inside.
The effort by Soviet authorities
to identify use of narcotics with
- Jewish religious practice is in-
tended to discredit and to quell
the revival of traditional Judaism
that is stirring among many
young Soviet Jews today. The
proposed victims are all activists
,- in underground Jewish education
— underground because the
> -Jewish heritage cannot be trans-
mitted openly from one genera-
tion to the next in the Soviet
Union. And although the adverse
impact on this particular group of
Soviet Jews is likely to be espe-
cially harsh, it is probably that,
over time, drug abuse will come to
be associated with other Soviet
Jews as well.
If authorities in the USSR have
been careful to transform ancient
blood libel charges into accusa-
tions with contemporary rele-
vance, they have also repeated a
related, hoary anti-Semitic libel
I --' in its original form.but-in a new
format. A recent cartoon in the
government newspaper Izvestia
(Sept. 21, 1984) shows an ugly,
brutish-looking Israeli soldier
standing over a well in southern
Lebanon, pouring matter into it
from a container labeled "poison-
ous substances" and bearing a
,,skull and crossbones.
In common with blood libel
charges, the most frequent inci-
dence of well-poisoning accusa-
tions occurred during the Middle
Ages. The black plague that swept
‘--7 Europe in the 14th Century was
often attributed to Jews who pur-
- portedly poisoned wells (and the
I air) in a massive conspiracy to
murder all Christians. This alle-
gation, too, rapidly gained cur-
rency in Russia. In 1550, Ivan the
Terrible rejected a suggestion
that Jewish merchants be.permit-
ted to reside and work in Moscow
so that the local economy might be
invigorated. Recalling the well-
poisoning charge (and anticipat-
ing contemporary concerns), he
asserted that Jews would "intro-
duce poisonous drugs into our
state."
Although the Izvestia cartoon
refers only to Israeli troops in
southern Lebanon, the anti-
Semitic caricature of the Israeli
soldier and the traditional impu-
tation of well-poisoning to Jews
have a broad anti-Semitic char-
acter fully consonant with the
current Soviet anti-Jewish cam-
paign. In common with the
specific drug abuse allegations
filed against Jewish activists in
Moscow, the charge of Israeli
well-poisoning is likely to be
transformed in the minds of many
Soviet citizens to an attack on all
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