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Plight of Egyptian Jews Arrested As “spies” Causes Concern

November 2, 1954
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Concern over the plight of Jews arrested in Egypt on “espionage” charges mounted today in the light of continued hostile Egyptian press reports.

The newspaper Al Goumhouriya was quoted as having stated: “The Zionist espionage case has disclosed that Zionists were working in hospitals and Egyptian and foreign institutions in Cairo and Alexandria. This discovery should provide western nations and the world with clear evidence that the artificial state of Israel must be erased from the map of the world for ever if people, East and West, are to survive.”

(In Washington, an emergency B’nai B’rith meeting summoned to consider the Egyptian arrests, called upon the free world to halt the “wave of terror” against the Jews of Egypt. The B’nai B’rith statement called upon “the free world to demand that Egypt halt this wave of terror and grant its unfortunate victims a full measure of their inherent human rights.”)

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