Bernice Tannembaum, acting chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist Organization, said the Soviet Anti-Zionist Committee is a “palpable and blatant Soviet propaganda tool. It has been artificially concocted by the Kremlin to counteract and cover up condemnation of the USSR’s program of Jewish spiritual and cultural repression and the almost complete cessation of Soviet-Jewish emigration.
“This calumny together with Soviet government interference with the delivery of mail to potential Jewish emigrants” are orchestrated by Moscow.
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