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Rome (JTA) — One in 10
Italians holds anti-Semitic
views and believes that the
Holocaust never happened,
according to a new public
opinion survey.
The survey, carried out by
the Demoskopea polling
organization and to be
published in the news week-
ly L'Espresso, grabbed
headlines in the Italian
media and mixed reactions
from Italian Jewish leaders.
"What is most frightening
in Italy and Europe are not
the swastikas and skinhead
violence, but the silence of
the people who look on," said
Tullia Zevi, president of the
Union of Italian Jewish
Communities.
"Behind the open hostility
there is a passivity and a
vast submerged antipathy,
whose limits are im-
palpable," she said.
"The most worrisome
phenomenon emerging from
this survey is the vast grey
area of anti-Jewish stereo-
types which stands behind
open anti-Semitism," she
said.
The survey of 1,064 people,
from all walks of life bet-
ween the ages of 14 and 79,
showed that 10.5 percent
agreed with the statement
that "Jews are not nice and
do not inspire faith." About
the same percent said that
Italy's 30,000 Jews should
leave the country.
Some 10.5 percent of those
interviewed would try to
dissuade a son or daughter
from marrying a Jew.
Some 9.2 percent said that
"today in Italy there is too
much talk about the exter-
mination of the Jews during
World War II." More than 9
percent said the Holocaust
never happened.
And 34 percent said that
Italian Jews "are not real
Italians."
Some 56 percent of those
interviewed said they
believed that "Jews have a
special relationship with
money" and 42 percent said
that "they should stop pos-
ing as victims of the Holo-
caust."
Two-thirds of those inter-
viewed said that "Jews have
a different mentality and
way of life than other
Italians."
"It's a mass of stereo-
types," Rome's Chief Rabbi
Elio Toaff commented in the
Rome daily Il Messaggero.
"Italians are much more in-
telligent than they appear in
certain interviews. And I
have faith in this people."
"I don't have to show that
we are real Italians, I don't
have to retell the story of the
struggles we have conducted
together, and of the innu-
merable expressions of
esteem and affection which I
have always had from repre-
sentatives of Italian institu-
tions, from President (Oscar
Luigi) Scalfaro on down, and
from ordinary Italians," the
rabbi said.
"No, I am not afraid of that
10 percent who wants to kick
the Jews out. We Jews are
not going to pack our bags.
That percentage is a
physical reality in a democ-
racy. They are the usual ex-
tremists, linked to the ex-
treme right wing," he said.
L.A. Federation
Makes Cuts
Los Angeles (JTA) — The
Jewish Federation Council
of Greater Los Angeles is
making severe cuts in its
operations and staff in the
face of falling contributions,
rising deficits and increas-
ing defaults on campaign
pledges.
Hard hit are the social and
community agencies serving
the area's 650,000 Jews,
contributions to national
organizations and funds
channelled to Israel through
the United Jewish Appeal.
Most of the blame for the
cuts is assigned to the gen-
eral economic recession,
although improvident fed-
eration housekeeping during
the flush 1980s did not help.
California has been hit
harder by the economic
downturn than most states,
with the real estate and con-
struction industries —tradi-
tional bulwarks of Jewish
giving — falling on espe-
cially tough times.
A portent of things to come
was last year's decision to
cut the budget of the coun-
try's second largest federa-
tion by $3.5 million and its
workforce by one fourth.
This month, the other shoe
dropped when federation
President Terry Bell and
John Fishel, the newly ap-
pointed executive vice presi-
dent, announced a series of
drastic cost-cutting steps
triggered by a revenue drop.