Nissan Motor Company reports that Datsun cars and trucks are beginning to be sold in Israel through a Tel Aviv dealership are “totally false and part of Nissan’s continuing pattern of double talk,” according to Arnold Forster, general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. “Nissan,” he declared, “is still participating in the Arab economic boycott of Israel.”
Forster said discussions with Nissan to sell to Israel began more than five years ago and met with an “unending flow of meaningless promises.” He added that “the newest Nissan lie documents once again ADL’s charges of complicity and double talk. It seems designed to stop the unfavorable publicity the company has been receiving.” Forster asserted that “no contract has been signed between Nissan and any Israeli firm.”
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