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PAGE 2 - THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, September 5, 1975
And from without, Jewish ac
tivists, who might so easily
themselves have been hammering
from within, kept up their
pressures.
Happily, many outstanding non-
Jews still regard the campaign for
freedom for Soviet Jewry as a
humanitarian issue of high impor-
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Soviet Jewry: Where Next?
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“One dark-night, when we least
expect it," said one of the world’s
top statesmen, "the gates will open
again. You can always count on
the Soviets to do what we Irttst ex
pect." I hope he is right. Expec
tations at present are grim.
During the past year, we first
saw the collapse of the Jackson
Amendment. It represented a
calculated risk which was worth
taking, and God bless the Senator.
Due to the strengthening of the
Soviet economy and the reduction
in the credit to be made available,
it collapsed.
At that stage, those concerned
with the Soviet Jewry movement
should have paused, co-ordinated,
reconsidered, and rebuilt the cam
paign in the light of the new cir-.
cumstances. Instead, the per
sonnel, the tactics and the slogans
remained the same.
f or the Jews wanting to leave
the Soviet Union, the provocations
became greater: more risks, more
imprisonment and more harass
ment. More telephone lines were
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shut down, more isolation im
posed, more threats to scientists —
and far fewer visas.
Occasionally, the Soviets show
ed a spark of humanity. While
academician Levich and his wife
were promised visas for the end of
1975, their two sons — Sasha and
Yevgeny (recently sentenced for a
year in the Soviet Arctic) —
emerged with their wives: men of
talent, humor and compassion.
But on the whole, the picture was
grim.
Encouraged by letters from
those immigrants who found it dif
ficult to settle down (letters wmch,
of course, always escaped un
touched by the censor) — and
depressed by the fear of further
war in the Middle East — the
number of emerging Jews who
went to Vienna, choosing to live in
other lands, increased. And the
Jewish band-wpgon was
deliberately chosen by the Soviets
as an escape route for those whom
they wished to allow to leave the
country, without changing their
basic policies of internal repres
sion.
Meanwhile, within the Soviet
Union, there were no new facilities
for the Jews, except, perhaps,
some extra matzo at Passover.
’Greville Janner is a
leading member of Parlia
ment, a vice president of the
Board of Deputies of British
Jews and one of the leading
members of the British ver
sion of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
... As we pause to offer you our
wishes for a SWEET and PEA CEFUL year,
we thank you for helping us grow
THE SO LO FAMILY