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Page 5 — THK SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, August 10, 1973
BEHIND U.N. SCENES . . . by DAVID HOROWITZ
Abram Charges “Anti-Zionism ”
Made “Code Word for Anti-Semitism”
Former Georgian Recalls
His UN Battle Against
Soviet Anti-Semitism
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP)
— Touching upon the plight of
Soviet Jewry today, Morris B
Abram, a former U. S. Represen
tative in the UN Human Rights
Commission, has charged that
“anti-Zionism” in the Soviet
Union "has become the code word
for anti-Semitism "
In a "Foreword" to a recently-
published brochure entitled
“Terror In Minsk — the KGB
Case of the Jewish Officers Plot”
— issued by the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry —
Mr. Abram notes that "the bit
ter irony is that this ugly doctrine
is being propagated and dissemi
nated throughout the world, per
haps in tandem, hy the propagan
da machines of the Soviet Union
and the Communist world and
ol the extreme right-wing and
fascist movements of various
countries."
Recalling his tenure here at the
UN as U. S. spokesman in the
Human Rights Commission, Mr
Abram said that he "had the
melancholy responsibility of call
ing the Commission’s attention, in
1964, to the publication in Kiev in
late 1963 of a blatantly anti-
Semitic book, ’Judaism Without
Embellishment,’ by Trofiln K.
Kichko, the Soviet Ukraine’s
‘specialist on the Jews.’
“As a consequence of that
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original exposure at the UN,"
Abram continued, “the book
achieved international notoriety
and became the object of protests
all over the world, including by
many Western Communist parties.
The affair ended in the censure of
aspects of the book . . . and its tem
porary withdrawal from circula
tion inside the USSR Unfor
tunately, just a few years later,
Kichko was rehabilitated and was
once more publishing ‘scholarly’
works of the same ilk about Jews.’’
Recalling further his experiences
here in this world organization, the
noted humanitarian went on to say
that “we at the Human Rights
Commission had to contend with
an alarming new theme in Soviet
propaganda — the equation of
Judaism and Zionism with
Nazism. This ghastly amalgam
equates the victim of the Holo
caust with its perpetrator. In the
decade since the publication of
‘Judaism Without Embellish
ment’, that equation has become
one of the central themes of So
viet propaganda on Jews, Juda
ism, Zionism. Jewish history and
Israel."
Referring to the decade follow-
ing anti-semite Kichko’s
rehabilitation, Mr. Abram informs
us that “literally thousands of
publications of all sorts — articles,
reviews, brochures, booklets,
books — as well as radio broad
casts, motion pictures and public
speeches, have sought to inculcate
the doctrine that the ancient
Jewish religion has spawned an
abominable ideology, Zionism,
which is racist and aggressive and
which in turn gave birth, in
alliance with world capitalist im
perialism and colonialism, to the
State of Israel, whose practices are
comparable only to those of
Hitler's Third Reich.
"And now, just one decade after
Kichko in the Ukraine," Abrams
tells us, “one learns of a Vladimir
Begun propounding the same evil
doctrine in Minsk; and he is not
alone. This malign propaganda has
become part and parcel of a larger
campaign of harassment of Jews in
Minsk and Moscow and other
Soviet cities who have been proud
ly asserting their Jewish identity
and actively seeking exit permits
for Israel
"One thing should be clear: their
right to leave the Soviet Union is a
fundamental right, which no
government may confer upon or
withdraw from any person The
policy of harassment is arbitrary
and irrational, and ultimately un
availing Presumably, its purpose
is to intimidate and discourage
Jews from seeking to leave. Yet
the experience of recent years,
when we have witnessed the
manifestly grow ing desire of scores
of thousands of Jews all over the
country to go to Israel, ought to in
form the Soviet authorities that
harassment and intimidation can
work, if at all, only in the short
run. In the long run, this is a
historically irreversible
movement."
Morris B. Abram concludes his
declaration with an appeal to the
Soviet leadership by saying that
“this policy of hostile propaganda
and intimidation can only be self-
defeating. It solves nothing and
only creates worse problems for
you. For it leads more and more self
respecting Jews into resentment,
resistance and defiance, and is even
condemned by your own intelligent
sia. Thus we say to you:
“Take a humane, logical and
statesmanlike lead in solving the
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