The District Court this week upheld an order by the Amsterdam Municipality forbidding the Netherlands Palestine Committee from street corner fund raising. The president of the court, William J. Borgerhoff, rendered the summary decision after hearing a demand from the Committee that the municipality reverse itself. The fund-raising was intended for the victims of the fighting in Lebanon. The municipality argued that the Committee was too controversial and that street corner fund-raising by its members would cause distress to Amsterdam’s Jewish citizens. The Committee, however, circumvented the court’s ruling against soliciting by selling leaflets on local streets.
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