Gideon Hausner, the Israeli attorney who prosecuted Adolf Elchmann, said here yesterday that “even the Nazis could learn a thing or two from Soviet propagandists” when it comes to anti-Semitism. Hausner spoke at an emergency meeting on Soviet Jewry called by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. It was attended by representatives of other Anglo-Jewish organizations and by the Israeli Ambassador Michael Comay. Hausner, a member of the Knesset, said that an article in last Thursday’s Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, was “full of hatred for Jews and proclaimed a confrontation between the Soviet Union and world Jewry.” he predicted that eventually the Soviets will back down on this as they have on other issues, but meanwhile, he added, Jews have “no doubt what we are facing.” Lord Shinwell, who addressed the meeting, said “We are witnessing now in Russia a resurrection of anti-Semitism and we must fight it by every means in our power.” Joseph Yankelevitch, a Russian Jew who went to Israel 18 months ago after spending ten years in a Siberian labor camp, told the meeting, “I am here to bear witness that Stalin’s death changed nothing.”
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