The “close working links” between Arab representatives and anti-Semitic groups in western Europe was discussed here today at the opening session of a two-day meeting of the Conference of Jewish Organizations, the coordinating body of ten major Jewish groups.
A report was presented by Dr. Stephen J. Roth, European director of the World Jewish Congress. He told the session that anti-Jewish activities in Europe were being conducted by Arab diplomatic representatives, Arab League officials and Arab students at many European universities.
He reported that, among the four European offices of the Arab League, the one in Bonn was “particularly involved in promoting anti-Jewish propaganda.” Information bulletins published and distributed by the Bonn Arab League office quoted at length “from anti-Jewish articles from the West German neo-Nazi press.”
The session also was told that Dr. Hassan Awat Sakoussa, director of the Bonn Arab League office was “a frequent contributor or offers interviews to neo-Nazi and extremist periodicals” and that he maintained working contacts with leading figures in the German neo-Nazi movement. COJO also reported that the other European Arab League offices, in London, Rome and Geneva, focussed on anti-Israel activities but that often their line between anti-Israel and anti-Jewish themes was indistinguishable.
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