About 2,000 Sephardic Jews and Jews from Arab countries held a mass meeting here yesterday to protest the treatment of Jews in Syria and other Arab lands. A cable was sent to Alain Poher, president of the French Senate, acknowledging his action on behalf of Jews in Syria. Poher heads the International Committee of Jews in Arab Lands. Speakers at the meeting included the Sephardic Grand Rabbi; Isaac Chehebar; Saui Mizrachi, spokesman for the Zionist Youth Conference in Argentina; and Mark Turkow, general secretary of the Latin American Jewish Congress.
Turkow said the fate of Jews in Syria was of great concern to Jewish communities everywhere. He appealed to the Syrian government to allow Jews to emigrate if they wished to. The meeting also drafted an appeal to the United Nations to intervene on behalf of Syrian Jewry. It denounced an attack by the Syrian Ambassador to Argentina. Jawdat Atassi, against Zionists and the DAIA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry. Atassi charge that DAIA had launched a “vast” Zionist campaign falsely accusing the Arab states, particularly Syria, of anti-Jewish discrimination.
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