The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, November 26,1971 - Page 7
Intemationai news
Latent anti-Semitism increases in Western Europe
NEW YORK (JCNS) -
America's anti-Semites, who have been on a lean diet in recent years, are taking new hope that America's policy towards China, and particularly President Nixon's forthcoming trip to Peking, will bring them out of political isolation.
According to them, all that has been happening vis-a-vis Red China is a "Jewish plot" engineered by the president's adviser on security affairs. Dr. Henry Kissinger, who is labelled in the anti-Semitic press as "Kissinger, the Zionist Jew,"" Richard Yaffe, the JCNS correspondent in New York, writes.
An analysis of domestic implications of Americans new China policy has appeared in Currents, a new quarterly pubUcation of the American-Jewish Committee introduced at the national executive council's annual meeting in Boston.
The committee was told by Dr. William Haber, professor of economics at Michigan University, that the troubles of Jews in Western Europe would increase in this decade unless there was a settlement of the Middle East conflict. He based his gloomy view on the "growing campaigns of anti-Zionism, anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, feeding on anti-Americanism."
The committee was also tbld that more Christian leaders were opposed to the internationalization of Jerusalem and want Israel to retain the united city under its jurisdiction.
Writing on America's new poUcy towards China, the editor of Currents, Milton Ellerin, whb also directs th^ AJC's trends analysis division, said that it had given the hate-mongers an opportunity to align themselves with conservatives^ in the hope that it will provide them with the means to come out of their political isolation.
The conservatives are displeased With what they regard as America's failure to head off West Germany's rapprochement with the Soviet Union; her lack of response to the spreading of Soviet power in the Mediterranean; and the failure to maintain Amierica's military position. On the. domestic scene, the conservatives also "abhor President Nixon's welfare plans, his actions on civil rights, his 'excessive' spending and his 'softness' towards intemationai Communism."
Dr. Haber in.his talk also gave warning that in Western European countries "latent anti-Semitism remains widespread ^d will doubtless respond to active agents."
One factor which made this likely, he said, was the response to the New Left's anti-Israel and anti-Zionist arguments from people "who cannot or will not distinguish between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, be-
tween the State of Israel and Jewry ... . or between disagreements with views and sentiments and hostility towards those who hold :'them."\
While he predicted that there would be no 'world or major war in the 1970's, Dr. Haber hedged this by saying that the danger of a m^jor war lies "where the interests; and in-tentioris of m^or powers are ambiguous, arid
-that one will act in the mistaken appreciation that another will no^, or that one or another can limit intervention short of full-scale
-war."
He cited the Middle East as one such area.-_There, the Soviet Union, believing that America was too busy with her troubles in
Vietnam and at home and would ''withdraw into defenswe positions and attitudes," mij^ty;> be tempted to "substaiitial military partid-: ■ pation" in the Middle East. >
Also, China, by political manipulations r and military supplies to extremist ^oups, ; inight "seize the opportunity to frustrate possible agreement in the Middle East and/.' try to manoeuvre Russia and the U-S. into ^ war." -
Dr. Haber's advice to the American-Jewish community was to try to "keep; Washington firm and Israel flexible; persuade Israel that it must take some risks; and the U.S. that it must make some commitments."
Siberian camp viaim describes harrowing personal experience in recent book
book review
"Magadan" by Michael Solomon Chateau Books Limited, Montreal $7.95
by Jonathan V. Plant
Caught m one of the vast and inhuman Siberian prison camps where many intelligent,, vilal and forsaken human being? „ol the Soviet Union are condemned to hve their lives under the rule of terrorizing thugs, the author Michael Solomon, has lived to tell the story of his treatment and of his experiences in Magadan.
Michael Solomon, a Romanian journahst, was arrested by the Communists on his return to Romania in 1946 after having served with the British in the Middle East and Africa during the Second World War. Against advice from his friends not to return to Romania, the author returned to the land he loved and left reluctantly at the beginning of the War, only to find himself, "On that fateful morning of Feb. 7. 1948," captured, imprisoned, and sent to a forced labor camp in Russia. Nine years later he was returned to the Romanians only to, "discover that Romanian jails and Romanian jailers were even worse than those 1 had endured in Siberia."
Michael Solomon relates a moving story which commences with his arrest on Feb. 7, 1948 on trumped up charges and tells of his human suffenng and of human viciousness perpetrated upon men. The author's thoughts, feebngs, fears, and hopes are so ' qyifi^j&^pressed and it is nearly a miracle Bftt.h^''5iSnij«ed the beatings, kickmgs and mefflfj(} tof'tufes. Besides the author's per-soninri^ dunng this period, Michael Solomon conveys some moving stories of individuals he encountered during the long seven years of confinement.
There isamoving story of a Camdla Horn, the humihation of a proud and courageous widow of the composer Serges Prokofiev and his contacts with a prison doctor. Amid all the tragedy, Michael Solomon is still able at tunes to smile at human behaviour and to reflect on his miserable condition.
Michael Solomon's desire to survive his miserable cpnd'Upn n^vef f^tftrecj qvpp in the
depths o|jh§ K,9iyjn%jnine..rTrH/ytv4s,of.tpn,
difficult.to believe,.yet there are.many who-have survived similar experiences and can testify to the authenticity of his account.
A prison doctor told him: "You're just one of the million victims who have been forced to work here. Try to see everything and then hope to live and tell people outside who seem so hard to convince. Tell them what you have seen and gone through all these years. If you can make them believe you, it will be the greatest service you can perform for the milhons of us who will never get out of here."
We will only do justice to the prison doctor and to all those whose story will never be heard or read by pondering, carefully Michael Solomon's gripping tale.
Jonathan V. Plaut is rabbi of Temple Beth £/,| Windsor.
Expects setge of propai in UN debate
Yitchak Raphael, a member of the Israel delegation to the United Nations, predicts the expected Middle East debate in the General Assembly later this month will be a "propaganda seige" by the Arab countries and their supporters.
"There is nothing to hope for in the debate from the Israeli point of view," he told the CJN in an interview last week. "But we are used to it."
Rai^ael, who is a National Religious Party-Mizrachi member of the Knesset, was in Toronto to speak at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue.
On this issue of Jerusalem, he said Israel cannot accept any official UN investigation in the city because according to a Knesset decision. Jerusalem is part of Israel and therefore an internal problem. "Jerusalem is a free city and anyone can come and look."
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