Some 200 persons yesterday rallied outside the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission to the United Nations here urging that it be closed because of the organization’s terrorist activities against Israel.
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents, among other areas, the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, told the rally that he would seek to introduce a resolution in Albany urging that the PLO office be closed.
City Councilman Robert Dryfoos indicated that he, too, would propose a similar resolution in the 35-member City Council urging Mayor Edward Koch to close the PLO office.
The PLO maintains observer status at the United Nations. The city in turn provides it with police protection.
The rally was organized by an ###hoc group called the Committee Against Terrorism, formed by Irving Katz and coordinated with the Jewish Defense Organization. Katz is a member of Americans for a Safe Israel which did not formally sponsor the rally.
Nevertheless, AFSI director Peter Goldman, addressing the rally, said of the PLO: “These criminals should not be granted diplomatic privileges, nor dealt with in any way except on the battlefield. Nor should these criminals be receiving the protection of the city of New York.”
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