The secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress lashed out at Swiss Jews during a meeting with the community in Zurich. “You don’t even know what anti- Semitism is,” Israel Singer said, responding to complaints that efforts by the WJC to get the Swiss to confront their wartime past had created an anti-Semitic backlash in the alpine country. His visit came amid calls from the local community that the Swiss government not join in U.S.-brokered talks aimed at seeking a settlement of the country’s financial dealings during World War II. In New York, the executive director of the WJC, Elan Steinberg, said the stance of Swiss Jews was “at odds with the sentiments expressed to us by Holocaust survivors around the world.”
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