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Seattle Jews and Catholic Diocese Protest Treatment of Jews, Others, in Arab Lands

April 18, 1969
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Twenty-two Jewish organizations and congregations and the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle joined in a community protest here last week against the treatment of Jews and other minorities in the Arab states. The protest meeting was held under the auspices of the Jewish Federation and Council of Greater Seattle. A resolution, copies of which were sent to President Richard M. Nixon and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, called on the United States and “all other civilized nations to express in the strongest possible terms their abhorrence of the practices of the Governments of Iraq, Syria and the United Arab Republic in systematically depriving their Jewish citizens and, in some cases, other minorities, of fundamental human rights such as freedom of their persons and property.” It urged “that persons imprisoned in those countries because they are Jews of members of other minorities be released.”

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