Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, yesterday called the attention of the Senate to Arab anti-Jewish boycott tactics and discrimination against American Jews. He asked from the Senate floor for a probe by the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
More effective action by the Federal Government to protect the rights of Jewish citizens is needed, the Senator declared. Sen. Javits also inserted in the Congressional Record a statement outlining discriminatory Arab practices issued this week by the Presidents of 17 major Jewish organizations.
Sen. Javits said: “Actions so discriminatory against commerce and so violative of international law and our own tradition as this systematic boycott and blacklisting of any American enterprise doing business with Israel or any American enterprise of which an American of the Jewish faith is apart are intolerable. ” He declared he would make a further investigation of the facts and report again to the Senate.
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