About two dozen people carried banners urging “Freedom for Syrian Jews” and “Let My People Go” in a peaceful demonstration outside the Syrian Embassy here Friday.
They prepared a letter for the Syrian ambassador to “transmit to the official organs” in Damascus.
It contained a statement explaining the purpose of their demonstration and extended “to the Syrian Jewish community our most sincere and heartfelt wishes for a ‘Shanah Tovah’ for the Jewish New Year 5752.”
The statement said: “As democrats concerned with the defense of human rights and as Europeans truly interested in contributing to peace in the Middle East, we firmly commit ourselves to solidarity with all Jewish minorities in the Arab states, whose human rights are violated and who are not permitted to emigrate.”
The demonstration was sponsored by the Italy-Israel Association, the Jewish Students Cultural Movement, the Young Zionists Union and other groups.
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