Zionists Launch Campaign Against Barrage of Arab Hate Propaganda

The national executive council of the Zionist Organization of America ruling body of the organization between annual conventions, today unanimously approved at the final session of a two-day meeting here a declaration presented by its president, Dr. Max Nussbaum, summoning American Zionists to rally to the defense of the Zionist movement in the face of “the most massive barrage of attacks by its enemies since the establishment of the State of Israel. “

The adoption of the declaration, and a strongly worded warning by Dr. Emanuel Neumann of New York, member of the American Section of the Jewish Agency for Israel and president of the World Union of General Zionists, against what he termed “the export of anti-Jewish propaganda from Cairo to various countries of the Eastern and Western hemispheres” with emphasis on the urgency for the American Jewish community to act on this “sinister aspect of extremist Arab nationalism” highlighted today’s session of the executive council attended by some 200 Zionist leaders from all parts of the country. Jacques Torczyner, chairman of the Council, presided.

The major addresses by Dr. Nussbaum, Dr. Neumann and other Zionist leaders at the session, calling for vigorous measures to counteract the large-scale anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish propaganda spearheaded by Arab emissaries, was touched off by the public addresses delivered by King Hussein of Jordan during his current American visit, who called for an “agonizing reappraisal by American Jews of their attitude towards Zionism” and attacked the Zionist movement as a “movement of aggression. “

In his declaration, Dr. Nussbaum asserted that “American Zionists cannot and will not remain silent in the face of such attacks” describing Zionism as “an ideal which is rooted in Jewish history and Jewish religious tradition for over 2000 years. ” In order that the “American people may have a full understanding of its true aims and purposes, ” he reiterated the principles and ideology of the Zionist movement.

NEUMANN CHARGES ARAB AGENTS ARE LINKED WITH NEO-NAZIS, FASCISTS

Dr. Neumann, in his address, charging Arab nationalist leaders with having “embarked upon an anti-Jewish policy, ” asserted: “It is directed in part against their own Jewish nationals, regardless of their attitude towards Zionism; and against Jews in general, in other parts of the world. They do not shrink from using the poisonous weapon of anti-Semitic propaganda.”

Dr. Neumann further charged that “Cairo has become the center of a planned and concerted anti-Jewish campaign, pursued with the participation of virtually all the Arab states” adding that “they have in fact become the heirs of Nazi Germany by raising anti-Semitism to the status of official policy; and their anti-Jewish propaganda is exported to various countries in the Eastern and Western hemispheres. In many instances Arab agents and agencies are linked with neo-Nazi and Fascist groups equally committed to virulent anti-Semitism. Neither the Western democracies nor even the Jewish communities in the Free World have as yet reacted in any significant measure to this new menace, ” he said.

Mr. Torczyner cited what he described “the growing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda which is being conducted at American colleges and universities by thousands of Arab students.” He charged that “this propaganda must not be left unchecked as it injects the poison of bigotry and anti-Semitism in the minds of American youth. ” He pointed out that this propaganda by Arab students “is considerably aided by slick and multi-colored publications mailed to the colleges and libraries by Arab Information Centers with headquarters in New York and branch offices in Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and Canada.

Dr. Sidney Marks, director of the ZOA, presented a report on the progress of all phases of ZOA activities encompassing membership, education programing, youth, world Zionist affairs and public information.