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Geneva (JTA) — The Los
Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center has urg-
ed the International Corn-
mittee of the Red Cross to
sever all connections with
the Palestinian Red Cres-
cent or find itself guilty of
condoning an affront to the
memory of 6 million Jewish
Holocaust victims.
An article published in the
July 1990 edition of the Pa-
lestinian Red Crescent's of-
ficial organ, Balsam, called
the existence of gas
chambers a Jewish hoax to
bilk money for Israel from
Germany, along with other
- anti-Semitic canards.
The article was brought to
the attention of ICRC Presi-
dent Cornelio Sommaruga
by the European represent-
ative of the Wiesenthal
Center, Shimon Samuels,
who met with him Dec. 18 at
the ICRC's Geneva head-
quarters, and in a letter
signed by Rabbis Marvin
Hier and Abraham Cooper,
the center's dean and associ-
ate dean respectively.
Mr. Sommaruga's re-
sponse to Mr. Samuels was
that while he sympathized
with the center's point of
view and regretted the arti-
cle, the ICRC could not
intervene in the affairs of
the 148 separate societies af-
filiated with the Red Cross.
He said that to "enter into
the controversy would en-
danger ICRC action in the
field," and advised Mr.
Samuels not to press the
issue too hard in today's
climate.
Mr. Sommaruga told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that he saw no point in giv-
ing publicity to an obscure
journal virtually unknown
in most of the world.
The Palestinian Red Cres-
cent enjoys observer status
with the ICRC, as does
Israel. The ICRC moreover
recognizes the Red Crescent,
the Red Cross equivalent in
Islamic countries, but not
the Magen David Adorn, its
Israeli equivalent.
Mr. Samuels pointed that
out to the ICRC chief. He
reminded him of the meager
help rendered Holocaust vic-
tims and Nazi persecutees
by the Red Cross during
World War II and also
brought up the fact that
after the war, the Red Cross
helped German war
criminals get passports to
escape to South America.
The Palestinian Red Cres-
cent is headed by Fathi
Arafat, a medical doctor and
the brother of Yassir Arafat,
chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Mr. Arafat is listed as
"general supervisor" on the
masthead of Balsam,
published in Nicosia,
Cyprus, so he must be held
responsible for its contents,
the Wiesenthal Center said.
Balsam published a seven-
page article, authored by
Rim Arnov, which quoted
extensively from Holocaust
revisionists. Among those
cited was French historian
Robert Faurisson, whose
1976 book claiming there
were not and could not have
been gas chambers at Nazi
concentration camps has
been discredited by scholars.
Claiming that Israel could
not survive without huge in-
fusions of funds from Ger-
An article called
the existence of
gas chambers a
Jewish hoax.
many, the article charged
that "the lie concerning the
gas chambers enabled the
Jews to establish the State of
Israel."
It complained that anyone
who questioned the Holo-
caust was threatened and
subject to ridicule by the pro-
Zionist press.
According to the article,
Jews have controlled the
French media since the
Revolution in 1789. "The
Jews own 75 percent of the
publishing houses in France,
100 percent of the press and
90 percent of the film and
theater industries," it alleg-
ed.
"Jews regard themselves
as the landlords of human-
ity, and the Nuremberg
courts were maimed mainly
by Jews and their friends,
who were directed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt's legal ad-
viser, Samuel Rosenman,"
the Balsam piece said.
In their letter to Som-
maruga, Hier and Cooper
wrote: "In the name of the
victims of the Holocaust, and
in the name of our 380,000
members, we urge you to
condemn this terrible pro-
vocation and to immediately
discontinue the ICRC's rela-
tionship with the Palestin-
ian Red Crescent Society."