Kalman Sultanik, executive vice-president of the World Confederation of United Zionists and member of the Jewish Agency Executive, warned today that the virus of anti-Semitism spawned by the adoption of the UN Third Committee equating Zionism with racism would, if unchecked, spread into the portals of governments of countries with Jewish communities, creating the likelihood of Jew-hatred percolating down to the masses of the population.
He called for a forceful reaction by the Zionist movement “to reach out to every conscientious Jew to meet head-on the grave threat to the existence of the Jewish people” by making them aware that under the guise of anti-Zionism the resolution seeks the destruction in a “package deal” of both the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
Sultanik spoke at a meeting of the national executive committee of the American Jewish League for Israel, a non-party Zionist group affiliated with the World Confederation, presided over by its president Judge Seymour R. Levine, Another principal speaker was Eleazar Lipsky. The World Confederation of United Zionists is the main coordinating body of non-party Zionist organizations in the diaspora. Its major constituents in this country are Hadassah, Bnai Zion and the American Jewish League for Israel.
Asserting that the foul attack on Zionism has “brought out from their lairs the very sinister elements that have never relinquished their quest to complete Hitler’s objective for the liquidation of the Jewish people.” Sultanik warned that the current development is a replay of the events of the 1930’s and early 40’s which brought entire civilization to the brink of extinction.”
He stressed the need for every Jew to proclaim his or her Zionist identification and asserted that “it would be appropriate to recall the example set by the King of Denmark during the Nazi occupation of that country when he publicly wore the yellow badge in solidarity with the Danish Jews who were forced by the Nazis to wear the yellow badge bearing the imprint “Jew.”
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