Three hundred members of the Jewish Society at Manchester University gathered yesterday outside the Town Hall here to protest Soviet suppression of Jewish culture and religion, and its aid to the Arab states. While a Soviet diplomat, A. Vavilov. of the Soviet Embassy here addressed a meeting of the Manchester Central Branch of the United Nations Association inside the hall, students outside distributed leaflets decrying the plight of Soviet Jewry. Questioned about the charges, Vavilov emphatically denied “any discrimination against Soviet Jews either as an ethnic group or a religious group.” He also defended the “right of the Egyptians to close the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping,” on the grounds that “it was surrounded on all sides by Arab territory.”
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