Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash) declared here yesterday that he would vote against American aid to any country that endorses the Arab-inspired draft resolution equating Zionism with racism which is being debated in the United Nations General Assembly today.
Jackson said that when the Ford Administration’s foreign aid proposals come before Congress “We will remember those countries” that voted for the anti-Zionist draft in the General Assembly’s Third Committee last month, One half of those countries that approved the measure are recipients of American economic assistance and ” I will not aid and abet their racism” with U.S. aid, Jackson said.
(The Washington legislator was one of a number of political, civic and religious leaders of al faiths who addressed a “Rally of Reaffirmation” in support of Israel and in opposition to the anti-Zionist resolution which drew more than 5000 persons to Boston Common. The rally was co-sponsored by the New England Zionist Federation, the American Zionist Youth Foundation and the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston. It was chaired by Bernard Garber, president of the New England Zionist Federation, and coordinated by Daniel Mariashin, the Federation’s executive director.
GOVERNOR, CARDINAL BLAST DRAFT
Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts declared at the rally that the anti-Zionist draft “is a reflection of a world turned upside down.” He warned that “If this country doesn’t begin to stand for something in international circles, we will be faced with this thing over and over again.” Another speaker, Rep. William Cohen (R. Me.) said “This kind of resolution is not consistent with the principles of the UN Charter. If it should pass, we would have to seriously reevaluate our participation in the UN.”
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of the Boston Archdiocese issued a statement in connection with the rally in which he described the anti-Zionist draft as “not a clear and precise expression of reality.” The Cardinal’s message said: “I am afraid that if adopted by the General Assembly, this resolution will be used for propaganda which will confuse rather than clarify the tangled knot of problems which mark the Middle East.” Cardinal Medeiros was represented at the rally by Msgr, Edward Murray.
Other speakers included Edward Redd, executive secretary of the Boston branch of the NAACP, Albert Schlossberg, president of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, and the Consul General of Israel in Boston, Shimshon Inbal.
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