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Jewish Aspirations, Third World
In Conflict, Envoy Tells WJC
Vienna (JTA) — There is a
"crisis of misunderstanding"- be-
tween the Jewish people and its
apirations and the Third World,
Ambassador James Jonah of
Sierra Leone told delegates
attending the World Jewish Con-
gress governing board here.
Jonah, assistant United Na-
tions secretary general and secre-
tary general of the Second World
Conference to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination, de-
scribed in considerable detail his
efforts at explaining to other Afri-
cans the concept of Zionism as in-
trinsically anti-racist and anti-
ghat°, in the context of the suc-
cessful efforts -to head off the in-
clusion of the Zionism-equals-
racism equation in the final dec-
laration of the Second World Con-
ference on Racism, held in Geneva
in 1983.
While this formula was not in-
cluded, several paragraphs con-
demning Israel's "racial discrimi-
nation against Palestinians" in
the occupied territories, and the
increased relations with the "ra-
cist regime" of South Africa were
included.
Jonah pointed to the "high pro-
file" of Israel's- relations with
South Africa as a key factor in the
Black African nations' refraining
from diplomatic relations with Is-
rael. "Your agony in thinking
about the Holocaust is exactly the
African feeling about apartheid,"
Jonah said. "Your experience in
the Holodaust frightens the Afri-
cans."
Responding to Jonah, Dr.
Gerhart Riegner, former secre-
tary general of the WJC and now
co-chairman of .its governing
board, said that it is "our duty to
come back to the UN Decade
(Against Racism) on all fronts.
(The WJC had withdrawn from
the First Decade Against Racism
1973-1983 after the UN General
Assembly adopted the Zionism-
equals-racism resolution in 1975.)
Paraphrasing Chaim Weiz-
mann's 1939 statement about
fighting both the Nazis and the
British White Paper, Riegner
added: "We will fight against ra-
cism as if the anti-Israel clauses
(in the final declaration of the
Second World Conference on Ra-
cism) did not exist. We will fight
the anti-Israel discriminatory
clauses as if the fight against ra-
cism didn't exist."
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, chair-
man of the WJC Third World
Commission, spoke of how the
Holocaust began with racism.
Jews, he said, were the first his-
torical victims of racism "and we
are it victims still in many parts of
the world.
This is why as a matter of sur-
vival we identify with the strug-
gle waged by other victims of ra-
cism."
In a strong statement, Schneier
said: "There cannot be a policy of
differentiation in the struggle
against racism. One cannot con-
demn apartheid and condone
anti-Semitism. One cannot con-
demn anti-Semitism and condone
apartheid. There must be no
selective struggle against ra-
cism."
On a parallel track, Rabbi Ale-
xander Schindler, president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, declared that the op-
pression of Soviet Jewry cannot be
considered a "strictly internal af-
fair, not any more than we can
consider South Africa's apartheid
laws to be strictly an internal af-
fair."
Speaking of the dangers in ac-
tivities for Soviet Jewry becoming
"cold warrior and urging an accel-
eration of the arms race," Schin-
dler said that "we reject the damn-
ing caricature of the Soviet Union
as an 'evil empire' totally devoid
of all humanity," a reference to
this description by President Re-
agan.
While expressing criticism of
the Soviet Union for not living up
to its ideals, Schindler was
against Jews falling into the trap
of "joining the shrill voices of
those who wish to sink Russia and
America ever more deeply into in-
cendiary rhetoric and reciprocal
military confrontation." He said
this would be totally counter-
productive to the cause of
Soviet-American relations.
In a closed session, Ambassador
Moshe Gilboa, director of the
world Jewish affairs division' of
Israel's Foreign Ministry repor-
tedly lauded non-Jews who had
helped Ethiopian Jews, as latter-
day Wallenbergs, who could not
be mentioned by name. (The
reference was to Raoul Wallen-
berg, the Swedish diplomat, who
was instrumental in saving tens
of thousands of Jews in Hungary
during the Holocaust and who
disappeared in the Soviet Union
40 years ago last week.)
Franz Cardinal Koenig, the
primate of Austria, who ad-
dressed a session on Christian-
Jewish relations, announced the
contribution of 100,000 schillings
($5,000) fdr Ethiopian Jewry re-
lief.
Premier Shimon Peres of Israel
said, from Jerusalem, during a
closed-circuit TV dialogue be-
tween himself and the WJC gov-
erning board delegates that a key
issue Israel will be focusing on in
the near future will be the absorp-
tion of Ethiopian Jews.
The session with Peres was
scheduled to be followed by a
Holocaust memorial service at the
Stadttemple (Seitenstettengasse
Shul), and two receptions, one of
them tendered by Vice.Chancellor
Norbert Steger of the Freedom
Party, to which Defense Minister
Friedhelm Frischenschlanger
also belongs.
That reception was being
boycotted by the Austrian Jewish
delegation to the WJC governing
board as well as by some othe r
delegates, including WJC vice
president Kalman Sultanik, in
protest against the Defense
Minister's greeting of Nazi war
criminal Walter Reder when he
arrived in Austria last Thursday
after nearly 40 years in an Italian
prison.
Klarsfelds Would Aid
Assassin To Kill Nazis
Paris (JTA) — Beate Klarsfeld,
who, with her husband, Serge,
have been tracking down Nazi
war criminals, said that they
would gladly assist anyone who
offered to assassinate a Nazi hid-
ing out from justice if it appeared
that legal measures were of no
avail.
Mrs. Klarsfeld said, "If a young
Palestinian or Arab, exasperated
by the immunity enjoyed by a
Nazi war criminal in an Arab
country" wanted to kill him, "we
would help. Can anyone imagine
that if a conscience-stricken Arab
would want to kill him for what he
had done to the Jews, we would
not help him buy a plane ticket
and return to Syria?" she asked.
Klarsfeld was referring specifi-
cally to Alois Brenner, a wanted
Nazi war criminal believed to be
living in Damascus. The Syrian
government has ignored extradi-
tion requests by West Germany.
The . Klarsfelds helped pinpoint
the whereabouts of Klaus Barbie.
He was expelled from Bolivia in
January 1983, seized by French
authorities and is presently im-
prisoned in Lyons pending trial
which is expected to begin late
this year.
But for a time it appeared that
Barbie would evade justice be-
cause he lived under the protec-
tion of the military dictatorship
that ruled Bolivia.
Mrs. Klarsfeld confirmed that
she and her husband had helped a
Bolivian, known as Juan Carlos
and described as a terrorist, to
retrn to that country several
years ago. She would not say spec-
ifically that his mission was to kill
Barbie. In the interim, however,
the Bolivian -dictatorship was
overthrown and Barbie lost his
protection. Juan Carlos was re-
called.
Sources close to the couple said
that their recent statements
suggesting, though not specify-
ing, that they would support vio-
lent measures against wanted
Nazis were intended "to make
Nazis in hiding feel insecure."
The sources said that the threat
of possible assassination might
encourage the Syrian government
to expel Brenner and thereby
avoid an international scandal
that would follow an assassina-
tion; or that Brenner himself
might decide to return to West
Germany voluntarily to face trial
rather than risk being killed.
Terrcirists Jailed
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Haifa
District Court handed out jail sen-
tences last week to five of the
seven members of a sabotage and
espionage ring convicted of plot-
ting to blow up a 36-story Tel Aviv
skyscraper. The sentences ranged
from nine years to life imprison-
ment.
The ring, which was first un-
covered in August 1983, had
planned to explode a car bomb un-
derneath Israel's tallest building,
the Shalom Tower.