Soviet discrimination against Jews was criticized today on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Leonard Farbstein of New York.
The New York lawmaker was addressing the House on two concurrent resolutions he introduced last week calling on both Houses of Congress to ask the United States delegation to the United Nations to “seek early adoption” of a General Assembly resolution condemning Russia for its discrimination against Jews and to ask for direct intervention on behalf of persecuted minorities by the UN’s Human Rights Commission.
Rep. Farbstein said that while Soviet Jewry is not “the target of Government-sanctioned pogroms, organized mass murder or wholesale deportation” the object of the Kremlin campaign is “the extinction of Jewish life.”
Rep. Farbstein, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the major purpose of his resolutions was to remind the Soviet leaders that the world is aware of their actions. “It is no exaggeration to say that whatever limitations the Soviet Government may have placed upon itself in its current anti-Jewish campaign stems directly from fear of adverse world public opinion, “the Congressman told the. House.
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