The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith declared this week-end that a "voluminous record of Arab vilification and action, not at all anti-Zionist but actually and explicitly anti-Jewish" flatly belies the Arab claim that their attacks are only upon Zionists and Israelis.
In releasing a detailed review of Arab anti-Jewish activities, Arnold Forster, the League’s national civil rights director, charged that Nasser is now "utilizing within his limited capacities a systematic worldwide campaign against Jews such as that used by the Nazis." Documenting Arab anti-Jewish activity, the report drew a sharp distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. The report described the several phases of the Arab anti-Jewish campaign, which included:
1. The libels against Jews as Jews which appear in the Arab press and magazines, in cartoons and are broadcast over Arab foreign and domestic radio systems. 2. The use by some of the Arab Governments of former Nazis, such as Dr. Johann von Leers, in their anti-Jewish propaganda work.
3. The Arab collaboration with professional American anti-Semites and the extensive exploitation of domestic hate material. 4. The Arab visa restrictions against Jews, even those seeking to travel to the Middle East for cultural, non-political purposes.
5. The worldwide Arab boycott and blacklist of Jewish commercial firms.
Mr. Forster noted that "Nasser himself has set the pace in the Arabs’ drive against Jews as Jews, wherever they may be," citing Nasser’s statement to an American reporter that he was fighting "not Israel alone, but international Jewry and the wealth of the Jews."
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