A public meeting, called by Evangelicals, Catholics, Liberals and Protestants, drew 500 persons at York minster Baptist Church but was disrupted by an Arab group which shouted, heckled, chanted “El Fatah.” Nine policemen were required to restore order. One Arab ripped pages from the Bible and threatened a member of the five-man panel. “When you return Jerusalem El Fatah will get you” was the greeting given to main speaker, Reverend Douglas Young of Holyland Institute, Jerusalem. The attack was prompted by remarks Rev. Roland Decorneille, an Anglican, aimed at the anti-Israel record of A.C. Forrest, editor of the United Church Observer. On Tuesday 1,000 Jewish students of the University of Toronto and York University and Jewish day schools marched in downtown Toronto picketing the French consulate on the occasion of French President Georges Pompidou’s visit to America. Youths carried a coffin.
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