“Zionist Falsehoods,” printed by the Novosti Press Agency in Moscow and recently obtained by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, claims that secondary students in Israel are taught that “Jews are entitled to slaves.” Printed in English for export just over a year ago, the book accuses Jews of being taught that “they are the elite of the human race and were especially created to pay homage to the Creator. Because of this they deserve to have slaves and these must be non-Jews because a Jewish slave would not devote himself entirely to God.”
The book, written by B. Bakanov is divided into four chapters: “Zionism Yesterday and Today,” “The Call of the Promised Land,” “The True Face of Israel.” and “The Deceived Open their Eyes.” Reminiscent of the most notorious anti-Semitic literature of the Nazi era, the book pretends to show that Zionists have always welcomed anti-Semitism, “because it is this that has always justified their existence.” The book continues, “It was fascism that brought death and suffering to millions of people, that enabled the Zionists to make a ‘selection’ of settlers to the future Israeli state.” The book says that Zionists put a high emphasis on-anti-Semitism so that Jews will recognize “that all non-Jews should be treated as anti-Semites.”
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