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Scholars of the Holocaust, including Winston Churchill's biographer, Martin Gilbert, and Dr. Stephen Roth, direc- tor of the Institute of Jewish Affairs and himself a member of the Zionist movement in Hungary during World War II, have called the play "preposterbus" after reading it in script. According to Gilbert, it is a "vicious travesty of the facts." Roth branded it "a libel against all those who lived through, fought and mostly perished in the Holocaust." The playwright, Jim Allen, a former miner, admits to be- ing an outspoken foe of Israel but claims to be "very pro- Jewish" and that he is "rescu- ing the Jews from Zionism." In an interview published in The Guardian, Allen main- tained that the Zionists were "Hitler's favorite Jews" because their interest coin- cided with his "on the basis of opportunism?' Allen's rationale is that "Hitler wanted the Jews out of Europe and the Jews wanted a state in Palestine. It was almost a volkist (folk) thing, blood and land. Hitler was fond of the Zionists, they were good Jews, prepared to fight for land." Ironically, the Royal Court Theater has several wealthy Jews among its patrons and its chief fundraiser in the U.S. is believed to be the impre- sario Joseph Papp, a strong supporter of Israel. Allen's play is loosely based on events in Hungary in 1944 when the Zionist leader, Rudolf Kastner, engaged in hopeless negotiations with Adolf Eichmann to buy Jew- ish lives in exchange for trucks and money. Kastner's activities were the subject of bitter controversy in Israel after the war. NCSJ Rebukes USSR For 'Hollow' Gestures New York (JTA) —. The Na- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), in its year-end report, last week rebuked the Soviet Union for "a year of dramatic, but largely disap- pointing developments" in human rights and Jewish emigration. In a wrap-up of Soviet moves and statements on human rights, released at a press conference, the NCSJ assails the new policy of what is being called "glasnost," or openness, in the USSR since Mikhail Gorbachev assumed leadership as merely a tac- tical shift, more cosmetic than real, and decries the new Soviet "humanitarian cam- paign" as "hollow." The NCSJ reports that Jewish emigration dropped 20 percent from the already low 1985 figure, with only 914 Jews leaving the Soviet Union last year as compared to 1,140 in 1985. The NCSJ also accuses the USSR of at- tempting to "close the book" on Jewish emigration by making statements such as that at the Bern follow-up conference on the Helsinki Accords in April, when they said that "they could not per- mit the sending of Jews to the `war danger zone' of Israel?' Such statements have been followed, says the NCSJ, by the concrete new emigration regulations which went into effect January 1, which "fixed in law the narrowly defined family" of parents, children and siblings who may invite relatives to join them abroad, "condemning hundreds of thousands of Jews from ever applying for, much less receiving, permission to emigrate?' The NCSJ report says that "nearly 380,000" have begun the process of applying to emigrate. Of the 380,000, the NCSJ identifies over 11,000 refuseniks. These cases, states the NCSJ, have been repeatedly raised with Soviet officials, notably by President Reagan at the Reykjavik summit last October. Hoopsters Defeat USSR Team 1b1 Aviv (JTA) — Israeli basketball champions Mac- cabi rIbl Aviv defeated the USSR champions Zalgeris Kaunus 81 to 74 in their return game in Brussels last week. Maccabi had lost to the Lithuanian term by 74 to 82 in their first match the previous night. The games are being played for the European cup of na- tional basketball.