Counteraction of pro-Arab anti-Semitic propaganda in this country and the interpretation of Israel’s role among the democratic nations is among the major objectives of a joint program plan for 1954 announced today by the National Community Relations Advisory Council coordinating body of six national, Jewish organizations and more than 30 local Jewish community relations councils engaged in combatting anti-Semitism and in fighting for civil rights.
The joint program plan was adopted by the NCR AC executive committee after many weeks of intensive joint study and discussion in various committees. Participating in the joint planning process were the American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and United Synagogue of America, and representatives of 32 Jewish community relations councils throughout the country. The plan sets up the following seven major objectives:
1. To foster understanding of the indispensable necessity of individual freedoms to the preservation and extension of democracy; and to promote democratic measures for the protection of those freedoms against Communism, reactionary extremism and all other threats.
2. To promote public support for and seek to foster equality of opportunity without regard to race, religion, ancestry, or origin in employment, education, immigration, housing, and every other aspects of our national life.
3. To foster interreligious amity, religious liberty and separation of church and state.
4. To promote election campaign practices free from appeals to racial or religious prejudices.
5. To counter the anti-Semitic impact of Arab propaganda and to promote understanding of Israel’s role among the democratic nations.
6. To cooperate in the celebration of the American Jewish Tercentenary.
7. To foster the development of needed local Jewish community relations bodies fully representative of all groups in the community.
Detailed programs for moving toward these objectives are presented in the plan as definite activities to be undertaken in regard to various subjects or problems. These include programs in regard to immigration, employment discrimination, discrimination in educational institutions, housing discrimination, civil liberties, communism, defamation, United Nations, legal and legislative matters, inter-cultural education, labor, veterans, community consultation and mass media.
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