The present Soviet regime “appears no less anti-Semitic” than Stalin’s, Philip M. Klutznick, president of B’nai B’rith, told the organization’s 113th annual convention here yesterday. He charged that the Khrushchev regime was deporting Polish and Lithuanian Jews to Siberia as a “Communist scapegoat to exploit the anti-Semitic passions that still exist in these countries.”
Mr. Klutznick reported “unconfirmed reports” that Hungarian Jews, most of them in Budapest, face threats of pogroms from both sides–“by the Soviet masters of Hungary and by the remnants of Hungary’s Jew-hating fascist groups who are ready to cut loose, if they haven’t already, in the frenzy of the freedom rebellion.”
The B’nai B’rith president appealed to the United Nations to take immediate action on United States resolutions aimed at settling the underlying Arab-Israel conflict. He declared that Israel had demonstrated “discipline, statesmanship and a fervent desire for genuine peace in its agreement to withdraw troops from Egypt.” He called on the Western Powers to match “this kind of political morality.”
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. representing B’nai B’rith’s 400,000 members, are considering a variety of cultural and service aspects of the organization’s program at the three-day meeting which opened Saturday night.
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