The Moroccan press was reported here today to be engaged in a new campaign against Moroccan Jews following the arrest of a number of Jews at Melilla on charges that they were planning to go to Israel.
The new press campaign was one involving all parties, from left to extreme right. The organ of the progressive left, L’Avant Garde, questioned the representative nature of the Government-sponsored Council of Jewish communities and assailed its publication, Voice of the Communities.
Al Fajr, the organ of the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior, and Al Moulafih, organ of the Moroccan Communist party, also carried lengthy discussions of the events involving Moroccan Jews,
Moroccan Jews were reported most shocked, however, by the stand of the Government paper on the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. The position of the newspaper made it clear that for Morocco, as for the United Arab Republic press, Eichmann was far from considered guilty.
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