The Christian-Jewish Associations in West Germany, whose patron is West German President Gustay Heinemann, have severely censured German Protestant student organizations for their open letter to Chancellor Willy Brandt, prior to his visit to Israel. The letter, leftist and pro-Arab in tone, spoke of “Israeli annexation of the occupied territories” and the “expulsion of Palestinians.” It described Brandt’s trip to Israel as “Legitimizing the military safe-guarding of oil supplies,” and “discrimination” against Arabs in Germany after the Munich Olympic massacre.
The coordination committee of Christian-Jewish Associations said it had read the open letter “with anger and amazement.” It said, Protestant students were running the risk of aligning with leftist thinking and were cynical when they spoke, on the one hand of the memory of Jews murdered by the Nazis and on the other, supported arguments dangerous to the lives of Jews and Palestinians.
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