Wj Congress Unit Hits USSR for Propaganda Which is Seen Hurting Russian Jews

The European Executive of the World Jewish Congress condemned the Soviet Union yesterday for its anti-Zionist propaganda campaign which it said had overtones of anti-Semitism that created a “climate of hostility” for the Jews in the Soviet Union. Winding up its session, the Executive also protested the failure of the Soviet Government to remove the disabilities suffered by Jewish citizens who are not given the same opportunities to develop their religious and cultural rights that other national minorities enjoy. The resolution also urged that Soviet Jews be given the right to leave the Soviet Union if they so desired.

The WJ Congress Executive also issued a declaration on the Middle East in which it proclaimed its complete solidarity with Israel and, in another declaration, urged the West German Parliament to abolish the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes.

In a report to the session. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president, said that no improvement could be expected in the situation of the Soviet Jews so long as present Soviet Middle East policy remained unchanged. He said the officially inspired anti-Jewish campaign in Poland had abated and that Jewish emigration from Poland had decreased. Recent developments in Czechoslovakia, he said, had not affected the Jewish position there and the Jewish communities still received Government aid despite the new regime’s closer ties with Moscow.