An authorized spokesman for the Singer Company here confirmed today reports it had received an inquiry from an Arab Boycott office about its activities in Israel and added that there had been no changes in those activities.
The spokesman was asked about a recent announcement of the Arab boycott committee that the company had yielded to the boycott. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, investigating the announcement, learned that the Arab boycott office in Libya had written to the company, which has no manufacturing facilities in Israel but sells its products through authorized dealers there.
The Boycott Office asked the company whether it was buying motors from the Redmond Amcor organization in Israel for Singer sewing machines sold by its dealers in Israel. The company replied that it did not buy such motors and the Arab Boycott Committee thereupon exploited the reply as a success for the Arab boycott.
The company spokesman said that Redmond Amcor motors were being purchased for use in its machines sold in Israel but that the purchases were made through the dealers. The spokesman said there had been no change of any kind in its operations in Israel since the exchange of communications with the Libya office.
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