A protest meeting against the suppression of Soviet Jewry and Russian arms supplies to the Arab states was held in Buenos Aires. Jewish community leaders from the capital and provincial cities attended. Speakers stressed that the protest was not directed against the USSR as such but against the “intensified anti-Semitic campaign conducted under the pretext of anti-Zionism.” They said the frequent comparisons of Israel with Nazi Germany in the Soviet press dishonored the memory of six million Jewish dead and the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fought Hitler. The Argentine Jews appealed to Soviet authorities to permit those Jews who wished, to emigrate to Israel and to allow those who remain to live in dignity and develop their own culture.
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