The Soviet Union has unleashed a new attack on Israel and Zionism with an article in a leading Russian newspaper seeking to link Zionism with Nazism and anti-Semitism. This was reported here today in dispatches from Moscow.
The new wave of attacks followed a short-lived indication of possible moderation emerging from the Warsaw conference on Middle East policy, concluded last week by Communist leaders from eight countries. The Warsaw communique referred to Israel’s right to exist, but stressed the primacy of unconditional withdrawal from occupied territories.
Today’s attack in the Young Communist League newspaper, Komosomolskaya Pravda, alleged that Zionism sought to exploit anti-Semitism to manipulate Jewish working class people. The writer, Yuri Ivanov, quoted Theodor Herzi, father of modern political Zionism, as allegedly stating that anti-Semitism was “useful” when directed against workers and “harmful” only when directed against Zionists. The new U.S.S.R. press and radio propaganda indicated that the anti-Israel campaign would continue unabated. The line is based on charges that Israel employed “Nazi” methods against the Arabs.
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