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Australia bans act
on Zionism, racism
by Sam Lipski
MELBOURNE (JTA)—The
Australian Parliament has voted
to overturn the 1975 United Na
tions resolution that equated
Zionism with racism. In a resolu
tion, which gained support from
all parties in the House of Repre
sentatives and the Senate, the
UN resolution was denounced as
an obstacle to peace in the Mid
dle East. Israeli leaders hailed the
Parliament’s action.
Prime Minister Bob Hawke
said the government supported
efforts to overturn Resolution
3379 because it had done “very
real damage to the relations be
tween states.” Hawke said that
successive Australian govern
ments had regarded the anti-
Zionist move as unacceptable.
Apart from the United States,
Australia is understood to be the
only other nation to have for
mally condemned UN Resolution
3379 in such forthright terms
through the full force of its
national legislative process.
The action, taken in Parlia
ment on Oct. 23, follows a year
long lobbying campaign under
taken by the Zionist Federation
of Australia as part of the wider
international campaign to have
the UN resolution rescinded.
The president of the Zionist
Federation, Mark Leibler, hailed
the Australian Parliamentary
initiative as “a breakthrough of
international significance which
will, it is hoped, set an example
to other democratic parliaments.”
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Five Jews arrested in Moscow
by Susan Birnbaum
NEW YORK (JTA)—Five
young Orthodox Jews arrested
in front of Moscow’s main syn
agogue on Simhat Torah were
released Monday after being de
fended by a Jewish lawyer who
lives in Paris and New York,
according to press reports from
Moscow. The lawyer, Samuel
Pisar, who was in Moscow v/ith a
delegation of the American Jew
ish Congress, has had frequent
dealings with the Soviet Union.
The five—identified as Sasha
Lieberov, Sasha Zhukov, Vlad
imir Geyzel, Sasha Ilin and Kon-
stan Alexeiev—were detained for
disturbing the peace and each
fined 50 Rubles, the equivalent
of about $75. They had been
arrested immediately after the
departure of Elie Wiesel, who
was in Moscow to arrange for
Soviet participation in a confer
ence on non-Jewish victims ol
the Holocaust, to be held in
Washington in February. While
there, the Nobel Peace Prize
recipient for 1986 also met with
Soviet Jewish refusniks. Wiesel
had sought without success to
meet with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev and dissident physi
cist Andrei Sakharov.
The Simhat Torah celebrations
in Moscow draw a large crowd
every year of Jews who do not
otherwise attend synagogue, and
it is the main Jewish event in the
Soviet Union. On this occasion,
Jews gather in front of the Choral
Synagogue and sing and dance in
the holiday’s tradition. The five
who were arrested were involved
in a “tussle,” according to the
press, Pisar reportedly said two
police cars drove slowly down
the street to disperse noisy cele
brants.
Pisar told the press that he was
called upon in his hotel Monday
morning by a group of Jews who
asked him to go to the Kalinin
Borough courthouse, where the
five were to appear. Pisar said
that a crowd of about 100 rela
tives and friends of the defend
ants had gathered in front of the
building. He told the press, that
he wrote a note to court officials
saying he was a lawyer familiar
with Soviet lavy and offered his
assistance.
Pisar said he was then invited
to the judge’s chambers, where,
he told the press, he explained
that he had been present at the
synagogue during the festivities
and that the celebrations were
expected on this particular holi
day. Pisar said he was then per
mitted to attend the police pro
ceedings on the case. Under So
viet law, police may administer
minor penalties. Pisar described
the Soviet magistrate as being
polite as she questioned the five
men and assessed the fines.
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