A group of Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals have protested the treatment of Jews in Arab lands in letters to United Nations Secretary General U Thant and the UN Human Rights Commission.
The signatories denounced the Iraqi hangings of Jews and non-Jews on alleged espionage charges and condemned the Arab call for a holy war against Israel for the El Aksa mosque fire and the recent hijacking of a TWA airliner to Damascus. The group urged the UN to take action to free the two Israeli nationals still held by the Syrians, to put an end to calls for “jihad” (holy war) and to secure the right for Jews in Iraq, Syria and Egypt to leave those countries.
Signatories included Silvano Santander, editor and former Argentine Ambassador to Mexico, and Americo Ghioldi, prominent left-wing politician.
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