The Central Jewish Committee published in a local daily, Excelsior, a statement condemning a large number of pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian articles and cartoons in other local media which the statement called “openly poisonous” against Israel and opposed to Jewish rights to Jerusalem.
The statement said one of the journalists is a Communist member of the Mexican Parliament, Graco Ramirez, who accused Israel of “genocide” against the “Palestinian people in Lebanon” and demanded that the Mexican government halt oil shipments to Israel.
Similar declarations were published by the local branch of the Arab League and a group of Mexican leftist politicians, intellectuals and writers supporting the “just cause” of the Palestinians. The Central Jewish Committee said these declarations contained even the signatures of some Jewish anti-Zionists.
Concern and uneasiness at the volume of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist material published in the local Mexican press was expressed at a meeting of the boards of the Central Committee, leading to a decision to issue the committee’s statement.
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