Jewish communal organizations are understood to be discussing a warning from the police that anti-PLO demonstrations during the opening of the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference here next month would be dealt with “firmly and sternly.” Police had warned yesterday that it will not tolerate demonstrations when the Queen attends the conference’s opening session at Westminster-Hall Sept, 5.
It is understood that many leading communal figures feel that the Jewish community is firmly entitled to express its protest against the government permission to the Arab terrorist organization to attend this conference. It is also felt that the Jewish community must draw public attention to the murderous nature of the PLO and to the involvement in terrorist activities of these delegates.
Several Jewish groups and organizations had earlier announced their intention to hold anti-PLO demonstrations. Even the Board of Deputies of British Jews, usually averse to demonstrations, has given its support to peaceful protests. Tempers are still running high over the PLO invitation and the refusal of the Home Secretary to bar the entry of the terrorist delegates to Britain.
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