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PAGE 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 28, 1986
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Sandimsta persecution of Nica
raguan Jews — including the tire
bombing of the Managua syna
gogue. death threats and harass-
ments and expropriation of prop-
ert\ which led to the exodus of
virtually the entire Jewish com
munity was described in a white
paper recently issued by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith.
Abraham H. Foxrnan. ADL’s
associate national director and
head of its International Ailairs
Division, said the white paper was
being made public “to set the
record straight, to answer pub
lished denials about the Sandinis
tas treatment of Jews.” The
league's information is based on
testimony from Nicaraguan exiles,
on disclosures from an ex-San-
dinista informant and on other
investigations carried out by the
agency during the last five years.
According to the ADL white
paper. Sandinista persecution of
Jews took place against a back
ground of unremitting hostility to
Israel and long-standing alliances
with the Palestine Liberation Or
ganization and other anti-Israel
terrorist groups.
The ADL report gave details on
the repression which began with
the Managua synagogue bombing
in 1978. the year before the Sandi
nistas came to power. The bomb
ing took place w hile the congrega
tion was inside and when they
attempted to escape, they were
confronted by armed Sandinistas
who ordered them not to leave the
burning building.
One of those in the congrega-
Abraham Foxman
tion. Oscar Kellerman, a Nicara
guan businessman now living in
exile in Miami, is on record as say
ing that the Sandinistas threatened
to “burn all the Jews.”
According to the former Sandi
nista informant, Mauricio Palacio,
who served as a “spy” within the
Jewish community, the synagogue
attack was part of an attempt to
frighten the Jews into leaving.
The League white paper noted
that at a Washington meeting on
March 14. 1985 Kellerman said
that the Sandinistas “tried to kill
me on three occasions, including
one attempt to firebomb my car.”
Among other instances cited by
ADL of Jews being menaced was
the experience of Isaac Stavisky. a
former textile manufacturer who
now lives in Miami. Stavisky, at a
meeting in Washington on July 20.
1983. said he and his son had been
stopped by Sandinistas while driv
ing in Managua and their lives
threatened at gunpoint. They were
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warned that their factory would be
taken over when the Sandinistas
came to power. The threat was
subsequently carried out.
Stavisky went on to say that for
18 months prior to July 1979
members of his family received
death-threat phone calls and graf
fiti was scrawled on their factory
walls reading, “Death to Jews,”
“Isaac will be killed” and “Beware
of Sandinista Justice."
The ADL report said that the
director of its Latin American Af
fairs Department, Rabbi Morton
M. Rosenthal, received a letter
from an attorney representing the
Nicaraguan government in Dec
ember 1983, stating that at least 17
Jews had had their property taken
away by decree. Other Jews who
fled Nicaragua were deprived of
their homes and businesses be
cause of a Sandinista edict that
anybody outside of the country for
more than six months automati
cally forfeits property. The Sandi
nistas, by intimidating Jews into
leaving the country, thus forced
them into a “Catch 22” situation,
as one exile described it.
The ADL white paper said San
dinista repressions have taken
place in an anti-Semitic atmos
phere that can best be summed up
by one giaffiti slogan scrawled on
walls in Nicaragua which reads:
"Judaism. Zionism. Somocism
all the same thing.”
According to ADL, three years
after the Sandinistas came to
power in 1979. the semi-official
newspaper. Nuevo Diario, charged
that the “world's money, banking
and finance are in the hands of des
cendants of Jews, the eternal pro
tectors of Zionism."
Of the total approximately 60
members of the Nicaraguan Jewish
community prior to the Sandinista
takeover, only two or three elderly
Jews still remain in the country.
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