Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., New Jersey Democrat, today in a Senate speech invited attention of fellow Senators to a call by the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. for more vigorous action against Soviet anti-Semitism. The Senator pointed out that in the last year and a half there has developed “accelerated harassment of Russian Jews. ” He cited “the singling out of Jews for discriminatory treatment” in the Soviet Union.
“Khrushchev’s cynical denials, while official Soviet machinery pushes inexorably toward the extinction of Jewish cultural life had little effect on the reprehensible actions of Russian officials and publications, ” the Senator said, “the closing of synagogues and the incidence of so-called economic crimes, punishable by death, are the most obvious facets of the sinister pattern of Soviet anti-Semitism. ” He quoted extensive material on Soviet anti-Semitism.
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