The United Zionists-Revisionists of America charged today that some Jewish leaders are “attempting to weaken Jewish determination to protest the treatment of Jews in Soviet Russia.” They warned that “the hush-hush policy advocated by these leaders may seal the fate of Soviet Jewry to the spiritual genocide to which the Communist authorities have doomed them.”
“Voices have been raised lately by some Jewish leaders here and abroad tending to absolve the Soviet Government of charges that it is discriminating against its Jewish citizens and persecuting Jewish leaders with trumped-up accusations,” the Zionist Revisionist statement said.
“There is an obvious effort to ease the public’s fear about the Soviet’s anti-Jewish policy. We deem it therefore encumbent upon us to warn Jewish and free world opinion not to fall prey to these soothing voices lest it will be too late to save Soviet Jewry from the spiritual genocide to which it is doomed by Communist policy.
“The efforts to stifle protests against the Soviet’s anti-Jewishness is reminiscent of similar voices which sought to allay Jewish fears of the Nazis during Hitler’s rice to power, which resulted in the annihilation of European Jewry,” the statement declared.
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