Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, denounced today the insinuation of “divided loyalty” made against American Zionists by spokesmen of the American Council for Judaism at its conference in Dallas. Texas, as a “slanderous attack by a tiny embittered minority which has been rejected by Americans in the past, but is dredged up and aired again, year after year.”
The Zionist leader also sharply assailed the announced decision by the American Council for Judaism to establish a “philanthropic fund” which will be “non-political” or “national” in nature. He said that this decision “fits into the pattern of the council’s vituperative campaign to vilify the United Jewish Appeal. Israel bond drive, as well as other funds raised to help the Jewish people, and is a transparent effort to undermine the traditional fund-raising efforts in this country. It may well be asked: “How much philanthropy has the Council raised in its eleven years of existence#”
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