Unbridled propaganda against Israel and Zionism is reviving and stimulating anti-Semitism in the countries beyond the Iron Curtain, the London Times reports today in a 2,000-word article on the position of the Jews in Eastern Europe.
“Tens of thousands of Polish Jews who changed their names during the German occupation of Poland in order to pass as Gentiles have continued to keep those names because of local anti-Jewish prejudice, ” the article says. In Russia, the article continues, the State of Israel is depicted as “unworthy of statehood.” Jews there who look toward Israel are considered traitors.
The article predicts that Jews in the countries behind the Iron Curtain, whether assimilated or not, will eventually be excluded from regular employment because of the increasing facilities for technical training and the educational priority given to sons of workers and peasants, and also because of anti-Jewish prejudice.
“It is for the solution of just such a situation that the State of Israel exists, however, for to the Jews in Eastern Europe, the Iron Curtain seems now to have descended with the finality of a prison gate,” the Times says.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
