The Democratic Party was urged today by the American Jewish Congress to include a plank in its 1960 platform to protect American citizens from religious discrimination by Arab countries.
The request was made by Shad Polier, AJC vice-president, in a statement delivered at the Democratic National Committee advance platform hearings here. He said that during the past two years, “the impact of the Arab boycott upon the rights of American citizens and the resulting impairment of basic policies of our Government have become intolerable.”
He told the session that the United States for years “has passively accepted the denial by Arab countries of entry and transit visas to American Jewish citizens and the barring of U.S. military and civilian personnel of Jewish faith from our Air Force installations at “Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.”
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