The Government of Israel apparently has decided to end a policy of silence on the subject of Soviet incitement against Israel, informed observers said today. They cited reports that the Government was planning publication of a “White Book” on Russia’s Jewish and Middle East policies, as well as Premier Ben Gurion’s charge that anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union had neither ceased nor weakened. The Premier made the statement in his address Sunday to the International Ideological Conference taking place at Hebrew University.
The speculation that the Israeli Government was preparing to speak out against Moscow coincided with observance in Israel of the fifth anniversary of the Soviet extermination of most of the leading Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union. Editorials in the press here asserted that as many as 50 of the Yiddish writers were murdered on August 12, 1952. The papers poked fun at a statement in a Communist paper quoting Soviet propagandist Ilyah Ehrenburg as saying he would like to visit Israel but was deterred by a fear he would be “murdered by Israeli warmongers.”
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