Clarence Mitchell Jr., a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN. charged here that the United States and Israel were among the “targets of attack” from “forces that would turn back the clock to the dark periods when rights were denied and tyranny was supreme.”
Addressing the annual meeting of the National Executive Council of the American Jewish Committee, he declared that the “possible harm” of the UN anti-Zionist draft resolution is that it would seek to enlist the entire UN in a global campaign against Zionism as a form of racism and a means likely to incite anti-Semitism against Jews and Jewish communities whose sympathies lie with Israel, He added that comments such as those maintaining that Jews controlled the banks and economy of great powers “reveal the true threat posed by the resolution.”
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