Leaders of Anglo-Jewry have received abusive letters and telephone calls following press reports of Israeli arms supplies to Argentina, which have caused strains between London and Jerusalem.
Unlike the DAIA, the central Jewish community organization in Argentina, which has hailed the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has refrained from issuing unqualified support for the government of Britain in the Falkland’s crisis.
Greville Janner, the president of the Board and a member of Parliament, justified this caution by noting the absence at unanimity in the Jewish community, as in Britain as a whole, about the government’s handling of the crisis. At the same time, he voiced British Jewry’s profound concern for the safety of British forces defending the Falklands.
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