The executive of the recently organized World Jewish Congress today issued a statement solemnly protesting in the name of Jewry against the violent campaign of defamation “organized methodically at the Nuremberg congress by the highest dignitaries of the Nazi State against Jews the world over.”
The executive appeals to the government of the world to oppose the campaign energetically.
“It was not world Judaism, but German militarism which during the World War stimulated the rise to power of Bolshevism,” the communique said. It also attacked the “political agitation sponsored by the German Government against another European state.”
“The affirmation that Bolshevism and Judaism are identical is absurd,” the statement said. It appealed to world public opinion against the sufferings and dangers of the German Jews as a result of the “anti-Semitic passions unleashed against the hundreds of thousands of German citizens” by the Nazi leaders.
Statesmen and the press of all civilized nations should energetically oppose the libels printed by the Nazis against the Jews of all nations because they tend to provoke internal disputes and conflicts in all nations, the statement declared.
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