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Anti-Semitism At The UN
Is Virulent, But Lessening

EDWIN BLACK

Special to The Jewish News

A

s the United Nations
prepares for its forth-
coming session,
Jewish leaders are hopeful
that the international body's
notorious propensity for anti-
Semitism continues its trend
toward abatement.
During the past 12 to 18
months, anti-Jewish slanders
have decreased both in the
General Assembly and the
UN's constituent groups. But
communal defense figures,
such as ADL president Burt
Levinson maintain that the
encouraging trend will not
last "without continually
bringing the problem to the
attention of the world."
Examples of recent anti-
Jewish behavior at the UN
read like a catalog of
medieval slander. For exam-
ple, about two years ago, an
Israel envoy at the United
Nations, speaking at the
General Assembly, presented
clear evidence that Gulf
States were the chief
economic supporters of South
Africa's apartheid. The
method: $2 billion annually
in secret oil shipments.
Israel's delegate then
pointedly asked if any of the
Gulf representatives would
reply.
Bahrain's envoy stood
before the Assembly and
calmly responded, "I want to
ask the representative of
Israel: who killed Jesus
Christ?"
Such conduct is not unusual
at the UN, where blood libel
is often the order of the day.
Saudi Arabia's delegate to a
1984 UN seminar on
religious tolerance, held in
Geneva, shocked Jewish sen-
sibilities by declaring, "What
has brought oppression to the
Jews from ancient times to
this very day has been their
religion." Saudi delegate
Maruf Al Dawalibi explained,
"Why did Hitler want to ex-
terminate them? . . . I have
studied this -subject scienti-
fically .. The Talmud says, 'if
a Jew does not drink the
blood of a non-Jew every year,
he will be damned for eterni-
ty.' " The statements were
entered into the permanent
record.
Such outrageous doctrine is
easily understood considering
the source. Dawalibi was no
less than the personal
secretary to the Jew-hating
Mufti of Jerusalem during
the Mufti's stay in Berlin as

a guest of der Fuhrer.
Dawalibi reportedly claims to
have studied the subject
"scientifically" during his col-
lege days in Paris. But an
Israeli dossier on Dawalibi
documents that while in
Paris, he was in fact a Nazi
spy.
Irritated Jewish leaders in-
sist that anti-Jewish rhetoric
is the true racist face of the
UN's more apparent anti-
Zionist atmosphere. But
unlike anti-Zionist rhetoric,
which is disguised as "poli-
tical," anti-Jewish behavior
cannot be explained away.
"Clearly, criticism of Israel
per se is not anti-Semitic," ex=

Unlike anti-Zionist
rhetoric, which is
disguised as
"political," anti-
Jewish behavior
cannot be
explained away.

plains the Anti-Defamation
League's Middle East director
Kenny Jacobson: "Any state
is subject to criticism both by
its own people and outsiders.
On -that level, criticism of
Israel has some legitimacy.
But to attack the Jews as a
people is beyond legitimacy!'
Of course, the UN as a
refuge for ex-Nazis and their
collaborators and surrogates
is well documented. The two
most notorious are former
secretary general Kurt
Waldheim, and Hermann
Klenner, until recently an
East German delegate to the
UN Human Rights Commis-
sion. Klenner, a card carrying
Nazi — i.d. #9756141, issued
in April, 1944 — was two
years ago nominated to be
Commissioner of the UN
Human Rights Commission.
Only a concerted interna-
tional objection blocked his
approval.

Harris Schoenberg, Bnai
Brith's resident expert on the
UN, asserts he is unaware of
other Nazis or Nazi col-
laborators currently in the
world body — especially at
this point in time.
But UN sources with access
to the organization's
historical record suggest that
in the '50s and '60s, there
were many more such figures.
Some of them are still alive,
but no longer associated with
the UN.
For example, says a UN
source, "There were at least

three gentlemen from the
Latin American nations who
left Germany before the
Nuremberg Trials, or who
were stationed in Argentina
during the war and never
returned home after the
Allies' victory?'
Another source pointed to
native Latin Americans,
Arabs and East Europeans
who during the Holocaust
were associated with Nazi
surrogate organizations such
as Hungary's Iron Cross,
Lebanon's Phalange and a
variety of Latin American
blackshirts.
With an infectious philos-
ophical undercurrent, it is no
wonder that a continuing
theme in the UN is denying,
or trivializing the Holocaust,
or diverting blame to the
Jews themselves. This is what
Syrian delegates, for example,
have in mind when they refer
to "the so-called Holocaust!'
And what Iranians mean
when they insist that "Jews
were sent to concentration
camps by the Zionists
themselves!'
This helps explain why
Nazi notions of Jews and
Judaism continually crop up
in UN sessions and seminars.
An East European envoy
declared, "The Torah is the
blackest book in mankind's
entire history!' And Jordan's
UN ambassador Hazem
Nuseibeh several years ago
felt comfortable quoting ex-
tensively from the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion, a fic-
titious anti-Jewish blood libel
popularized by Adolf Hitler
and Henry Ford working
together.
Nuseibeh told UN dele-
gates that "a Jewish cabal ex-
ploits the rest of humanity by
controlling the money and
the wealth of the world!' He
added, "People like Lord
Rothschild every day — in
ironclad secrecy — decide and
flash around the world how
high the price of gold will be
on each particular day."
"Such historic stereotyping
is always ready to resurface,"
asserts the ADL's Jacobson.
ADL experts add that other,
less knowledgeable delegates,
especially from the Third
World, are frequently in-
fluenced by anti-Semitica.
"That's why the foreign
minister of the Congo recent-
ly referred to Israel as com-
parable to the Nazis!'

Israel's deputy ambassador
Yohanan Bein sees anti-
Semitic language as more
than just rhetoric. "What

