The American Council for Judaism was severely criticized today in a statement issued by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, for soliciting and making public messages of greetings from Arab diplomats in this country in connection with the annual conference of the Council now taking place in Philadelphia. (See page 3 for a report on the proceedings of the conference.)
“For a long time,” the statement said. “the vast majority of American Jews have recognized that the American Council for Judaism, a fractional political group masquerading as a religious movement, has by one means or another sought to hamper the establishment and later the development of the Democracy of Israel. This is the first time, however, that a body of Americans, professing to be Jews, has publicly aligned itself with enemies of Israel and the Jewish people. This disgraceful and humiliating spectacle will meet with the contempt it deserves from American Jewry.”
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