A Herut member of Parliament told a mass meeting for Soviet Jewry today that it was useless to appeal to the “humanitarian feelings” of Soviet leaders and that “we must try to force them to solve the Jewish problem by opening the gates for Jews.”
Speaking at a B’nai B’rith sponsored protest rally, Chaim Landau said that “we demand ‘Let my people go’.” He declared that the only solution to the oppression of Soviet Jewry was to enable them to migrate to Israel. Other speakers said that anti-Jewish tendencies were continuing in the Soviet Union and that only pressure and demand from the whole world would bring about a change in Soviet attitudes. They called on public opinion everywhere to join in the demands for Soviet Jewry.
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