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Their findings were echoed
by British Foreign Minister
William Waldegrave, who
last week added his voice to
the growing chorus of con-
cern. Also just back from a
visit to the Soviet Union,
Waldegrave expressed
alarm at the growing
manifestations of anti-
Semitism and warned that
"some terrible old monsters
are stirring."
As a result, he said, con-
firming the findings of the
human rights group, the
British government - "now
almost alone among
governments" — was still
doubtful about its participa-
tion at Moscow's human
rights conference.
"Among the blossoming
freedoms in the Soviet
Union," he told Soviet Jewry
campaigners at a dinner in
London, are also growing
deadly weeds, "and one of
these is anti-Semitism."
He had encountered a
sense of deep anxiety that
Soviet society was respon-
ding to the current strains
"in a way which is all too
familiar. There is no ques-
tion, according to the
evidence I was given by Jew-
ish leaders in Moscow and by
the people I spoke to in Kiev,
that some of the old ways
have returned."
Waldegrave did not expect
Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev to produce a
miracle cure for anti-
Semitism: "But we do look to
him to give all his citizens
the confidence that the law
will be upheld and that they
are not alone against
organized anti- Semites.
"I do not imagine that the
evil in man is going to dis-
appear overnight," he said.
"It is perhaps inevitable
that the growth of freedom
allows also a growth in the
expression of some of the
darker sides of the ancient
spirit of those people, but
what we look to is the re-
sponse of the authorities fac-
ed with this situation."
To facilitate the exodus of
Soviet Jews, Waldegrave
favors direct flights between
Moscow and Tel Aviv —
"and I believe they will be
set up after the dust has set-
tled because the Soviet
Union is extremely keen to
have full relations with
Israel.
"Moscow wants to be a
proper player in the Middle
East process and it cannot do
so unless it has proper rela-
tions with Israel, he added.
"Although we have no
technical standing in the
matter, we will certainly do
what we can to add to the
pressure."
Indeed, it is the urgent
desire of the Soviet leaders
to normalize relations, not
just with Israel but with the
Western world in general.
To achieve that sublime
condition, the Soviet Union
must be seen to be acting,
more or less, like a normal
state. It is for this reason that
the gates to Jewish emigra-
tion have been thrown open
so wide; it is for this reason,
too, that the Soviet au-
thorities will do everything
they can to prevent the cur-
rent bout of hatred from
spinning out of control and
developing into a full-scale
pogrom.
What they have singularly
failed to do — so far, at least
— is to speak out against the
upsurge in anti-Semitic sen-
timent or nail the widely
proclaimed allegation that
the threat of pogroms is a
Zionist-inspired plot design-
ed to stampede Soviet Jews
to Israel.
Anti-Semitism, in one
form or another, has never
been completely erased from
the popular agenda, par-
ticularly in Russia and the
Ukraine. It has simply been
kept in check. - Nor should it
be forgotten that the very
word "pogrom" — Russia's
gift to the international
vocabulary — is specifically
asociated with the
murderous attacks on Jews
in Tsarist Russia.
It is a cruel irony that
rampant, grass-roots hatred
is so prevalent at the very
time that Jews are enjoying
unprecedented freedoms in
the Soviet Union.
Under the leadership of
Mikhail Gorbachev, institu-
tionalized anti-Semitism has
been radically diminished.
Jewish religious and
cultural activities are now
allowed on a scale that
would have been
unimaginable just a few
years ago, and emigration is
permitted to continue at
record levels.
What is now abundantly
clear, however, is that the
new-found official tolerance
of Jews does not reflect pop-
ular sentiment in the street.
Andrei Shilkov, a journalist
with the unofficial news-
paper Glasnost, offers a suc-
cinct rationale: "People need
an internal enemy — and it's
the Jews."
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