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Per Ahlmark, a leader of Sweden's Liberal Party, is one of the non-Jewish mem- bers of the Swedish Corn- mittee on Anti-Semitism founded eight years ago. The committee was instrumental recently in silencing a viciously anti-Semitic radio station serving the Islamic community in Stockholm. Mr. Ahlmark said that 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon, was a pivotal year marking the serious revival of anti-Semitism. Since then, Moslem immi- grants have absorbed Euro- pean anti-Semitism, which they have added to their own, while non-Moslem re- visionists in Britain, France, Canada, Australia and the United States denied the occurrence of the Holocaust to a new generation with no memories of World War II. Mr. Ahlmark stressed the need to detach criticism of Israeli government policies from Israel's and Jews' right to exist. Even low levels of anti-Semitism must not be tolerated, Mr. Ahlmark in- sisted. His remarks were second- ed by Hayim Pinner, secre- tary-general of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who cited examples of anti- Semitic cartoons in the British press. A delegate from Holland said anti-Semitic groups are quick to sense any policy disagreement among Jewish leaders, and it is important therefore to present a united front. There has been controver- sy among British Jews over the Board of Deputies' alleg- ed reluctance to publicize the recent epidemic of cemetery desecrations in Britain. Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz, president of the board, and Eric Moonman, chairman of the European Commission on Anti-Semitism, discussed the issue of copycat crimes that follow news reports of cemetery vandalism.