Italian Jewry Protests Soviet Bracketing of Zionism with Nazism

Italian Jewry protested vigorously this weekend against the efforts made by the Soviet delegation to the United Nations to have Zionism condemned on the same footing with Nazism. The principal protests were voiced in telegrams to the Italian Foreign Ministry and to Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani from the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and from Dr. David Schauman, president of the Italian Zionist Federation. (Mr. Fanfani is president of this year’s General Assembly at the United Nations.)

The Union of Italian Jewish Communities declared, in its wire to Mr. Fanfani, that it viewed the Russian move at the U.N. “with indignation,” stating that it rejected “energetically the insulting equalization, void of whatever historical foundation, between Nazism and Zionism.” Dr. Schauman declared that the Soviet move at the United Nations “puts on the same plane Cain and Abel, the slaughterers and the victims, Nazism and Zionism, only 20 years after the Jewish people’s most atrocious tragedy.”