The Board of Deputies of British Jews, speaking in the name of British Jewry, today adopted a resolution protesting the Moscow accusations against Jewish organizations. The resolution, adopted with only three votes in opposition, declared the Board’s “emphatic” denunciation and “abhorrence” of “this latest use of anti-Semitism as a deliberate policy by the rulers of the Soviet Union.”
In a second resolution, the organization appealed to the British Government to reconsider its decision to offer jet planes for sale to the Arab states. In asking reconsideration, the Board pointed out that the Arabs consider themselves still at war with Israel, asserted that the sale of such weapons to the Arabs would precipitate an economically-disastrous arms race in the Middle East and stressed that it would hamper attempts to bring peace in the Middle East.
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