Israel Will Bring Moscow’s Anti-semitism to U.N. Attention

The Israel Government will bring the anti-Jewish drive in the countries behind the Iron Curtain to the attention of the United Nations, it was indicated at a press conference here today by Dr. Arieh Kubovy, Israel’s Minister to Czechoslovakia and Poland, who was recently declared “persona non-grata” by the governments of both countries.

Dr. Kubovy, who came here to address meetings on behalf of the Israel Bond campaign, said that the proceedings of the recent Prague “purge” trial were of a “patently anti-Semitic character.” He added that the present Moscow campaign of slander against Israel will not deflect the efforts of the Jewish state “to consolidate and defend its democracy, press forward its economic development, and keep its doors open for all Jews who wish to find a haven in its midst.”

Assailing Moscow’s charges against the Joint Distribution Committee and the leaders of Israel, Dr. Kubovy stated: “I would repeat in this regard the statement made last week in the Parliament of Israel by our Foreign Minister, Mr. Moshe Sharett, that ‘the Government of Israel will expose in the United Nations and on every platform this campaign of instigation against the Jewish people in the countries under Communist control. The people of Israel have been gravely concerned by the pernicious anti-Jewish course which has now been officially adopted in the U.S.S. R. and which must arouse the most vehement indignation and condemnation on the part of the State of Israel and Jews throughout the world.’

“All I need to add is that Mr. Sharett was expressing in that statement the deep-seated feelings of all our people in Israel, ” Dr. Kubovy pointed out. He reported that fundamental economic developments are proceeding apace in Israel. “The pace of development is slackened today only by capital shortages, not by the unavailability of raw materials and other natural wealth, ” he stated.