The Moscow newspaper “Trud” today replied to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem with a denunciation of Zionism, Israel, and rejecting as “quite absurd” the “declaration of the leaders of Zionism and Government leaders of Israel about oppression of the Jewish population in the Soviet Union and their demand for immediate migration of 1,500,000 Jews from the USSR to Israel.”
Trud termed Zionism “a tool of American imperialism” and said the Jerusalem meeting was “a rally of bankrupts.” The Communist newspaper, reflecting the Kremlin view, said: “The most reactionary Zionist elements, headed by Ben-Gurion, have come to power in Israel and have turned Israel into a tool of imperialism, above all of the monopolies of the U.S.A.”
According to Trud, Jewish workers in Israel are subjected to terror. “In Israel,” said Trud, “thousands of Jews are unemployed, ill-housed, and Jews from Asia and Africa are discriminated against by Israelis of European origin.”
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