Dr. David Hyatt, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, has commended American business leaders for their courageous stand against Arab attempts to boycott Jewish-connected financial houses. In a statement issued here, he also deplored the “blackmail inherent in the Arab program of discrimination,” as well as deploring those who have yielded to such “intimidation.”
The need for the non-Jewish community to protest such anti-Semitism “cannot be emphasized strongly enough,” Dr. Hyatt stressed. “If there be any dissenters on the need for such emphasis, the Holocaust serves as a tragic reminder of what can happen when there is no regard for human rights and when vicious prejudice is allowed to spread unchecked and unchallenged.”
The NCCJ president called upon American businessmen to follow the “example of courage and integrity” of financial institutions which have resisted Arab pressure and “refused to surrender moral principle to business advantage.”
CORRECTION
Solidarity Sunday For Soviet Jews will be Sunday, April 13, not April 15 as was inadvertently reported in Tuesday’s Bulletin.
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