The Council of Europe, a supra-national European parliament, called Monday on the Soviet Union to stop its anti-Jewish persecutions. The European Parliament, at its regular session in Strasbourg, also called on all its member states to take active measures to try and help the Soviet Union’s Jewish population.
The Council unanimously voted to protest against the prison sentences meted out to Jewish activists in the USSR, stressing that these sentences were imposed on people “who only want to exercise one of their most elementary rights–that of settling in the country of their choice.”
The Council stressed that the current anti-Zionist campaign launched by the Soviet authorities “strongly smells of anti-Semitism” and drew the Soviet government’s attention to the Helsinki Convention on the protection of human rights.
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