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Jewish Youth Lead Democratic Forces
As World Youth Assembly Fails
By Harris 0. Schoenberg
Aofataat Director, UN Office,
B’nai B’rltti Intcntatioaal Council
“After 25 years ... the United
Nations has admittedly become
rather stale and somewhat tired.
It is timely ... . for the organ
ization to be confronted tvith
fresh ideas and uninhibited
views, particularly views of
young men and women who
have n6t yet fallen into the rut
of custom and convention." With
these optimistic words Ambassa
dor Richard M. Akwei of Ghana,
chairman of the UN 25th Anni
versary Committee, opened the
World Youth Assembly, which
brought , together as part of the
observance of the UN’s birthday
paricipartta from over 130 na
tions and close to that many
international youth groups. For
ten days the young people were
to air their views and work up
some original proposals that the
UN General Assembly was
pledged to consider. As it turned
out, the only “rut” the majority
had not fallen into was that of
courtesy and adherence to the
principles of the UN Charter.
Typical of the Assembly’s
freedom from custom and con
vention was the fist fight (the
first in UN history) in what was
termed the Assembly’s Peace
Commission. An Algerian sup
porting a rival group attacked
a representative of an Angolan
liberation movement. The chair
man of the Peace Commission,
a Palestinian who openly ad
vocates war, ordered the An
golan ejected, just as the day
before he had insisted that the
UN security guards remove the
gallery audience after it ap
plauded a speech by the rep
resentative of the B’nai B’rith
Hillel International Jewish Stu
dent Organization, , a speech
which was loudly heckled by
the Soviet and Arab participants.
The Arabs had assured the se
lection of the Palestinian as
chairman by filling the room
with their colleagues from the
three other commissions—Devel
opment, Education, and Environ
ment — during the voting. No
sooner was he chosen than an
Iraqi participant claimed that
his election signified “the aware
ness of the youth of the world
of the legitimate and valiant
struggle” of the Palestinians.
Michael Butler, producer of
“Hair” and principal sponsor of
the Assembly, had promised'
that the World Youth Assembly
would be “a beautiful thing.”
Had young people muffed their
chance?
United Nations planners had
feared that youth would stand
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Dr. Marvin Gold*t»in, President
away, feeling the Assembly
was too., much “Establishment.”
And that’js precisely what it was
the l/N’s Soviet-Arab Establish
ment, increasingly dominant
since 1967. Though “Establish
ment” delegates scrupulously
avoided interfering with the
agenda or procedures of the As
sembly in order to foster the
illusion of youthful independ
ence, back home their govern
ment handpicked participants
sure to parrot the line of then-
older envoys. The generation
gap, it appears, like pollution,
is a luxury of the “West.”
The American participants
were not government chosen.
Expected to lead the opposition
to the Moscow-Cairo axis, they
mostly adopted a pathetic,
breast-beating stance, avoiding
confrontations. The Establish
ment, self-assured, articulate,
and aggressive, hounded, taunted
and shouted down the opposi
tion. Many West Europeans and
Latins, sensing the American
lack of will, decided to relax
and have “a blast.” The leader
ship of the anti-Establishment
forces, which had naturally fal
len to the spiritless Americans,
was grasped by the second most
beleaguered group at the As
sembly—the Jews.
It was a “bad .show” for the
Jewish students right from the
announcement on the first day
of the nominations for the
Steering Committee. As the
temporary chairman of the plen
ary read the names forwarded
by the European caucus he an
nounced: “The participant of
Ireland . . . No, there must be
a mistake! Estelle Feldman?”
The Israeli youths responded
to the continuous Arab invective
with offers of peace and private
discussions based on self-de
termination for both Arab and
Jew. One of them, Ariel Whine,
counterattacked with the prop
osal that an even-handed As
sembly should deal with Soviet
imperialism and neo-colonialism
in Eastern Europe and the Mid
dle East, Arab imperialism jn the
Southern Sudan against the
black population, and the op
pression of Jewish minorities in
the USSR, Syria, Iraq and
Egypt.
But the star of the West was
the representative of B’nai B’rith
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