The National Black Political Convention’s controversial resolution on Israel is “divisive” and “regrettable,” but “represents only a narrow partisan view” and not “the thinking of the mass of Black Americans,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was told by Seymour Graubard, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
“It is deeply regrettable that the first national effort at Black unification should be the source for divisive propaganda,” Graubard said of the measure condemning Israeli “expansionism” and “forceful occupation” of Arab land. “The gratuitous attack upon Israel,” he continued, “has shocked the American Jewish friends of America’s Black community.” But he noted that “The statements of the Black Congressional Caucus and a broad spectrum of other prominent Black leaders in support of Israel are heartening indications that the resolution represents only a narrow partisan view.”
Several hundred persons demonstrated in the center of Jerusalem this afternoon while the visiting head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pimen, attended a reception in the Soviet ecclesiastical missions building. The demonstrators shouted slogans in Hebrew and English demanding that Soviet authorities permit Jewish emigration and freedom for Jewish prisoners in the USSR.
The damage caused by fire Saturday to the Israeli pavilion at the horticultural exhibition in Amsterdam has been repaired.
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