Extremist and racist movements “and their growing influence” in the United States were assailed here by delegates to the 58th annual convention of B’nai Zion, the American Zionist fraternal order. Raymond M. Patt, a Manhattan attorney, was elected president, succeeding Edward Sharf.
The resolution did not name any particular racist groups in warning against their “disrupting effect,” whether they “be right or left.” The resolution charges that such groups were “turning neighbor against neighbor, race against race, stifling progress, promoting fear and distrust and interfering with academic freedom.”
In another resolution, the delegates urged speedy ratification by the United States of the genocide pact outlawing mass murder. The delegates also asked that American colleges and universities take immediate steps to ban the spread of “anti-Israel and anti-Zionist propaganda by Arab-foster student groups on their campuses.”
The delegates subscribed a total of more than $250,000 for the United Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund, the B’nai Zion Foundation and Bonds for Israel after they heard an appeal from Dr. Harris J. Levine, former B’nai Zion president.
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