Howard Fast, American writer who broke with the Communists, was denounced in the Soviet press this week-end as a “militant Zionist” Literaturnaya Gazeta, leading literary organ in Moscow, said that the real reason behind Mr. Fast’s break with the Communists was his love of Israel. According to the Moscow newspaper, Mr. Fast last year denounced the “insulting” tone of a message the Kremlin sent to Israel after her armies invaded Egypt in November, 1956.
“Fast got indignant at the sharpness of the note to Israel,” the paper wrote. But he did not get indignant at the fact that Israel started the aggression. The truth is that Howard Fast is not a Marxist, not an internationalist, but a militant Zionist who camouflages the insistent preaching of national exclusiveness with platonic words about fraternity”
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