The Arab League propaganda office took issue here today with a statement made by a leader of Argentine Jewry in New York that tensions had abated between Jews and Arabs in the Argentine despite Arab League efforts to increase them. But the refutation was nothing more than another attack on Zionism by Fouad Chayels, director of the Arab League office here.
Chayels assailed Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of the Delegacion de Associaciones Israelitas Argentina (DAIA), the central representative body of Argentine Jewry. While visiting New York last week, Dr. Goldenberg said that last June’s Six-Day War had created tension between Arab and Jewish communities in Argentina but that these had since abated and the Arab League was unable to make any headway in arousing local Arab hostility against their Jewish neighbors. On the other hand, Dr. Goldenberg said, the Arab League found support among extreme right wing and anti-Semitic groups in Argentina and the Communist Party.
Chayels, in what was intended as a reply to Dr. Goldenberg, said that the Arabs do not “give political significance to religions” whereas “Zionists exploit religions politically.”
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