The 28th World Zionist Congress which opens here tomorrow night was attacked in Moscow today as a gathering motivated by “anti-Sovietism and anti-Communism.” A press release Issued in the Soviet capital reported that a special meeting of “public and political figures of many nationalities” had convened to “express their indignation and protest against the forthcoming provocative congress of Zionists in Jerusalem.”
“We angrily reject the malicious fabrications about our country,” a statement issued at the meeting said. “We protest against provocations and slander, against Zionist attempts to decide the destinies of Soviet Citizens and push them into a betrayal of their motherland.”
The statement described the organizers of the Zionist Congress as “the chauvinist Jewish bourgeoisie” and said that “it pursues the same strategic aim as Inspired it in the past–to make Israel into the citadel of international Zionist reaction” and to draw the Jewish people Into the struggle against the friendship of peoples and the policy of peace and progress.”
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