Reacting to this week’s bombing at the Aeroflot and Czechoslovak Airlines office in Manhattan, Stanley H. Lowell, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry remarked, “had the bomb injured or killed an innocent individual, the cause of Soviet Jewry would have been irreparably harmed.” Lowell rejected the use of “violence for the sake of violence” as a tool to advance the cause of human rights. He continued. “Those who continue these tactics, and their supporters accomplish nothing. Terrorist acts can only hurt the cause of Soviet Jews petitioning for their right to free emigration, as well as cultural and religious rights in the Soviet Union.”
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