The DAIA, Argentine Jewry’s central agency, declared yesterday it was ready to appeal “to the highest authorities” for action against a program on the official television station which presented a symposium of “gross Nazi calumnies” against Jews and Zionism. The denunciation of the program “Rapprochement of the Arab States Towards Latin-America” which was telecast last Wednesday on “Journalists Table,” a regular feature on Channel 7, was made in a telegram to Col. Diego Enrique Perkins, chairman of the Federal Committee for Radio and Television.
The DAIA protested “the offense perpetrated against the Argentine people” by Journalists Table, which, “for unconfessed reasons spreads the most insidious and gross Nazi calumnies.” The DAIA charged that the “obvious purpose” was to inject the Mideast problem into Argentina “to frustrate the goals of national union accepted and supported by the immense majority of our people.”
Asking Perkins urgently for an interview, the DAIA declared that it sought “the suppression of this aberrant instigation to hatred,” adding that “in view of the extreme gravity of the facts, we are ready to appeal to the highest authorities.” The program was conducted by Perla de la Vega who, the DAIA said, prodded the participants into making extremist statements. The morning newspaper. La Opinion, asked Channel 7 for a tape of the program which was denied for “technical reasons.” But the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was able to obtain a private recording of the one-hour program.
JEWS ARE ‘USEFUL IDIOTS’ FOR IMPERIALISM
Miss de la Vega introduced three “authorized personalties,” Miguel Cosma, correspondent of “Mundo Arabe,’ and chairman of the Arab-Latin American Institute; Neiva Moreira, Brazilian journalist who attended the Algiers conference in September; and Jacques Scyzoryk, introduced as a Jew and as “a great scholar” on Jewish Arab themes. He has written such books as “The Jewish Conspiracy in the Middle East and Argentina,” and Nazi-Zionist Aggression in the Middle East.”
Scyzoryk said he belonged to “the Mosaic religion not to the Judaic one because I hate Talmudic capitalistic-rabbinic religion.” Urged by the moderator to explain, he said, “Mosaic religion is the root of the Christian religion but Judaic religion is anti-social and anti-Christian.” He said the “Judaic religion” was now used “as a political vehicle since Zionism is using all Jews the world over as useful idiots for imperialist ends.”
He added that “Zionist capitalists do not come to a country to enrich it but to impoverish it and produce chaos.” He said the Jew was not identified with Israel “since those who fight in the Negev or Sinai are not sons of Zionists but sons of the poor Jews.” Cosma was asked by the moderator how it was possible that Zionism, something of “completely mystical origin” should be used for “something so materialistic as Zionist capital.”
Cosma replied that Zionists had “organized commandoes in Argentina for the moment when Israel will suffer a military blow, to strike by surprise in Argentina and establish a secessioned Jewish State here.” But when he charged that Zionism “managed” the press, radio and television in Argentina, Miss de la Vega interrupted to say “excuse me, radio and television are managed by us, otherwise you would not be speaking here.”
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