“Arab students on American college campuses are engaging in a vicious campaign of defamation against American Jews and are casting aspersions on their loyalty, integrity and devotion to the ideals of America.” Rabbi Zev Segal of Newark, N.J., the newly-elected president of the Rabbinical Council of America, declared here today.
Rabbi Segal, speaking at the 32nd annual convention of the association of Orthodox rabbis, blamed “these Arab students for causing the recent assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy due to their inflammatory, irrational and brazen hate activities.” Rabbi Segal, in his acceptance speech to the 600 delegates, appealed to Attorney General Ramsey Clark to “undertake an intensive investigation of the nature of Arab propaganda and action on the campuses and to suppress any manifestations, illegality, abuse and violence which are being indulged in by these Arab students organizations.” He said, “It is absurd to permit these students to castigate the American Government which is extending to them extraordinary opportunities for study, learning and travel. They are abusing the hospitality and generosity of the American taxpayer who is defraying the costs of their lengthy stay in the United States.”
Rabbi Segal also called upon the State Department “to revoke the scholarships of these 7,000 Arab students who are not adhering to the requirements of the moral and legal code which is explicit in the grant of financial assistance. The Arab students are collaborating actively with a variety of subversive elements such as the Communists and the Black Nationalists in a deliberate effort to damage and undermine the security of the United States. They are daily waging a most contemptible program of hatred and animosity against American Jewry throughout the length and breadth of the United States,” Rabbi Segal declared.
Rabbi Segal warned the State Department and the Department of Justice that “failure to stem this type of Arab campus involvement will inevitably result in other homicidal tragedies, weaken the diplomatic status of the nation, and create an environment of mutual hostility among our populace. It is incumbent upon all of our Government officials to prevent such catastrophes by adopting drastic means to curb this well-financed Arab machine,” he asserted.
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