Jewish Groups Denounce Attempted Bombings of Un, Foreign Missions

A broadly representative council of Jewish organizations yesterday denounced those responsible for the attempted bombings last week of the UN and the offices of foreign nations in New York City. Bombs were found and dismantled by police bomb squads before they exploded in a subway tunnel that extends under the UN library and at the Iraqi Mission to the UN. A pipe bomb also exploded outside the Polish Consulate.

The executive committee of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, at its quarterly meeting, said that, while it deemed the presence of the “murderously terroristic PLO” at the UN Security Council “morally indefensible and injurious to progress toward Middle East peace,” this does not justify violence in protest.

The national organizations that are affiliated with the NJCRAC, and all of which joined in the statement, are the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League. Jewish Labor Committee. Jewish War Veterans, National Council of Jewish Women. Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and the United Synagogue of America.

TEXT OF STATEMENT

The statement declared: “Terrorism in all its manifestations is abhorrent, whoever its perpetrators or its victims and whatever its objectives. The national Jewish organizations and Jewish community relations councils in cities throughout the United States that comprise the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council have consistently denounced and condemned all forms of terrorism.

“We has join in condemnation of the attempted bombings of UN buildings and foreign consulates last week during the meeting of the UN Security Council….Such violence is not only reprehensible. Its perpetrators are grossly mistaken in their calculation of its effects. It can only inflame passions and impede peaceful resolutions. Happily, discovery of the bombs last week before they detonated prevented loss of life or injury or severe damage to property. Their placement nevertheless were criminal acts and we hope that those responsible will be apprehended and punished.”