ADL Leader Warns Conference of New Anti-jewish Danger Signals Abroad

Dore Schary, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, warned the 55th annual meeting of that organization here today against “anti-Jewish danger signals” — a revival of political anti-Semitism overseas and the anti-Semitic attitudes of the far right and far left in this country. He said that recent events in Poland and West Germany reveal that “for the first time since the Nazi period, the bloody ghost of political anti-Semitism is again beginning to take shape.” At the same time, he said, the Middle East crisis and the American urban crisis had triggered renewed anti-Jewish sentiment among extremists in this country.

Mr. Schary charged that under the guise of weeding out an alleged Zionist conspiracy, Polish Communists were reviving the anti-Semitism endemic to the area, even to the point of distorting Polish history during World War II. The new Party line, he told the League commissioners, made the victims of the Nazis their collaborators, and those who had or would tell the truth were branded enemies of the state. In West Germany, he said, the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, amassed ten percent of the vote in the state’s elections in Baden-Wurttemberg. He pointed out that three years before Hitler, ‘this same political force got twelve percent of the vote.”