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PLO claims responsibility for Oct. 15 g renade attack by Richard Bono TSI staff writer Eighteen suspects were ques tioned by Israeli authorities in connection with Wednesday even ing’s attack at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, where one person—the father of a soldier—was killed and 69 others injured. Four Jerusalem hospitals treated tourists, civilians and soldiers for shrapnel wounds and broken limbs. According to news accounts, as many as three Soviet-made hand grenades were thrown into a crowd by two attackers. About 300 new Israeli army recruits and their fam ilies had gathered at the Western Wall for a swearing-in ceremony when the attack occurred. The Palestine Liberation Organ ization (PLO) has claimed respon sibility for the attack, saying that Army personnel, not civilians, were their target. They’ve indicated that more attacks will come. “Sure they say the attack was at the army and not at civilians,” says Israeli Consul General Issachar Katzir, “but they consider every Israeli as a soldier. They say it openly.” Reaction in Israel is one of hor ror, according to reports, which note there has not been an attack of this kind in Jerusalem in two years. The last such attack occurred in 1984 when a bomb exploded on a local bus traveling near Jerusa lem’s Mount Herzl military ceme tery. Six people were killed and dozens injured in that attack. Out-going Prime Minister Peres has said that Israeli Security Forces will do all they can to cap ture those responsible. Some Knes set members have called on Peres to demand that Egypt close the PLO offices in Cairo. Consul General Katzir comment ed that as long as attacks like this continue, true peace will evade Israel and her neighbors. “1 am optimistic that once the Arab world reaches the conclu sion,” Katzir said, “that Israel is there to stay, whether they like it or not, they will come to negotiate without preconditions.” Supreme Court agrees to decide on protection of Jews’ civil rights by David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA)—The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Jews are protected by the U.S. civil rights laws. No date has been set yet for arguments on the case. Opening its new term last Mon day, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Shaare Tefila Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in the Washington sub urb of Silver Spring, Md., that was defaced in November 1984 with anti-Semitic epithets and Nazi symbols. Eight men were charged in crim inal court, one of whom was con victed of destroying property. But the 500-member congregation filed for damages under two federal civil rights laws passed after the Civil War to protect blacks. However, last March the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Rich mond, Va., upheld a ruling by a federal district court in Maryland that the statutes did not apply to Jews because they are not members of a separate race. The Supreme Court also agreed to hear the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen who sued St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa., charging that he was denied tenure because he is an Arab. Irvin Shapell, president of the Jewish Advocacy Center, said Shaare Tefila originally brought the suit “to send the clear and emphatic message that anti-Semitic violence will not be tolerated and that Jews will fight back to the ful lest extent of the law.” The Jewish Advocacy Center, a non-profit legal service organiza tion which represents without charge victims of anti-Semitic vio lence in civil damages lawsuits, and the Washington law firm of Hogan and Hartson are representing the congregation in the suit. “Although the congregation does not claim that Jews are a separate race, it does argue that Jews are entitled to protection if acts of hate violence against them are racially motivated,” Shapell said. “Courts should not decide whether some one is entitled to protection based on their racial makeup, but rather based on the nature of the attack against them,” he said. “Many people and groups suffer ‘racial’ attacks even though they are not considered a ‘race.’ Those people and groups are entitled to the same protection under federal law given to others,” Shapell stated. Vandal strikes at Jewish museum by Steve Feldman Jewish Exponent PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—Po lice were still looking last week for a 25-year-old man about 5 feet, 10 inches tall who allegedly vandal ized a statue on the grounds of the National Museum of American Jewish History on Oct. 2. The statue, completed in 1876, was broken in several places and covered with a yellow-red substance believed to be molasses. Barry Morrison, regional direc tor of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith here, said the dam age per se wasn’t necessarily anti- Semitic. But, he noted, because of the location of the statue and the fact that it was commissioned by B’nai B’rith, “it’s hard not to con clude that anti-Semitism was the rationale for the act.” The vandal ism he said, is another indication of the need to promote religious and racial harmony. Sallie Gross, acting director of the museum, said that 10 days ear lier a swastika had been spray painted on the museum wall facing the statue. 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