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JANUARY 29, 1988 / 10 SHEVAT 5748
Israelis Are Tired
Of The Preaching
HELEN DAVIS
Israel Correspondent
Jerusalem — "I'm sick and tired
of hearing the panicky expressions of
American Jews. And I'm sick and
tired of being preached at?'
Such is the blunt reaction of
Likud Knesset Member Ehud Olmert
to the stream of protests flowing into
Jerusalem from American Jewish
leaders over Israeli policy in the ad-
ministered territories.
Indeed, the phone lines from New
York to Jerusalem have been running
hot ever since Defense Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin somewhat indelicately
enunciated Jerusalem's policy of
beating Palestinians into submission
rather than shooting them.
It is an ugly policy — "thuggery,"
was the epithet applied by a New York
Times editorial at the weekend —
but one that eloquently described the
frustration of a defense minister in
search of a formula that would cap the
firestorm of protest that continued to
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rage in the occupied territories.
It is, moreover, a policy that might
have been deliberately designed and
calculated to send American Jewry
into a tailspin.
Rabbi Alexander Schindler, presi-
dent of the American Union of He-
brew Congregations, cabled President
Chaim Herzog to protest the "moral-
ly wrong" policy and to declare that
it was "an offense to the Jewish spirit,
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Bias Incidents Up
In U.S., Down Here
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
A direct correlation between Mid-
dle East events and anti-Semitic in-
cidents in the United States is being
seen by leaders of the Anti-Defama-
tion League of B'nai B'rith.
Richard Lobenthal, director of the
Michigan Region of ADL, is antici-
pating an upsurge in anti-Semitic
acts in Michigan this year in the
wake of media coverage of the Palesti-
nian unrest in the Gaza Strip. And his
assessment comes on the heels of a
national ADL report that showed in-
cidents dropped significantly in
Michigan in 1987, despite a general
increase throughout the United
States.
"In the main, the numbers and
fluctuations don't mean anything,"
Lobenthal told The Jewish News this
week. "The increase and decrease of
significant events of a public nature
are what leads to the acting out by a
teenager" of anti-Semitic actions. The
key question, said Lobenthal, is
whether the malaise of anti-Semitism
is still prevalent enough among teens
to lead to anti-Semitic graffiti — the
major cateogory of anti-Semitic acts
in Michigan.
An increase in anti-Semitism
throughout the United States is
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