A letter from a Russian Jew answering Soviet Jewish General David Dragunsky, who had attacked Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel, was read here last night at the founding assembly of the Public Council for Soviet Jewry. The letter, signed by V. Polsky of Moscow, was brought to the assembly by Lord Barnett Janner. It read in part: “Don’t you understand that the hatred against the Jews of Israel which you foment is going to boomerang against the Jews of the Soviet Union? You are flinging this anti-Jewish weapon with your own hands and it is in vain that you hope it won’t touch you! It would have been better for you to use your experience and your prestige as a prominent military commander to help the hard-hearted enemies of Israel understand that it is impossible to defeat it. To achieve such a victory it would be necessary to annihilate all of Israel’s 2,500,000 Jews.” The letter was signed “Disrespectfully Yours, V. Polsky, candidate of technical sciences.”
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