The Fellowship Commission, the nation’s oldest private human rights, intergroup relations agency, appealed to the United States Government, it disclosed today, to take steps to end the reported “denial of rights, imprisonment, mob violence and murder of citizens in various Middle East states solely on the basis of their race, religion, or national origin.”
In a letter to President Johnson, the Fellowship Commission said it felt that the Arab-Israel crisis did not come within its competence, but that it was “shocked” by the reports of the treatment of “innocent civilians who are deprived of rights, liberty or life itself solely because of their former or alleged relationship to one or another of the combatants in the Middle East crisis.”
The commission’s action followed publication of news of the slaying of Jews in Arab countries following the outbreak of the Arab-Jewish war, their imprisonment, internment or deportation, and continuing incitement against them in several countries.
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