The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League warned today that a group calling itself the “Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East” was a Communist front spreading anti-Israel propaganda in this country. According to the ADL’s general counsel. Arnold Forster, it is trying to raise funds for an anti-Israel advertising campaign without disclosing its true nature. He said the purpose of the ADL was to warn Americans who might be tempted to contribute “without knowing that they were lending their names to a Communist cause.” Forster said the Committee lists its headquarters at the Jefferson Book Store, described by the FBI as one of a number of “Communist bookstores which function throughout the United States under the management of loyal, longtime party members.” D. Rubel, treasurer of the Committee soliciting funds for the ad campaign is Dan Rubel, owner of the Jefferson Book Store, Forster said. He said the anti-Israel ad has already appeared in The Daily World, the official organ of the Communist Party in the U.S., and in The Guardian, a self-proclaimed independent radical newspaper. Forster said the ad in both papers was accompanied by an appeal for funds to pay for its appearance in the New York Times.
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