French police are investigating several anti-Jewish organizations which have recently been organized here, it was learned today. The groups insist that they are anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish.
The largest of the groups is the Anti-Zionist League which is believed to have some 400 members. The funds of this organization, it has been learned, were supplied by the Arab League. Two other groups are the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Compensation and Amnesty, which is headed by a former Chief of Cabinet in the Vichy Government; and the Union of Civic Victims, one of whose leading members is Jean Legrand, a devense attorney for a group of Moroccans recently tried in Casablanca on charges of having participated in pogroms’ in the Moroccan town of Oujda last year.
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