ews Eshkol Demands Halt to JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, shaking with anger, appeared before a grim Parliament to denounce the pre-dawn hanging of nine Jews as "genocide" that will be stopped by Israel if it is not halted from outside. • [. Mr. Eshkol, whose face reflected the rage felt by Israelis when they learned of the hangings, quoted scripture in what some interpreted as a threat of reprisal against Iraq, Mr. Eshkol said the Jews who Were executed were not spies' their native Jews if left to their for Israel. "Their only crime own devices. . . was that they were Jews." He Israeli newspapers echoed dedescribed the hangings as part mands for revenge and chided of a scheme by the Iraqi Gov- world opinion for not reacting ernment to direct attention from when it was learned that Iraqi its internal troubles. "The land Jews had been sentenced to of Iraq has become one great death. Yediot Achronot wrote, prison for its Jewish remnant, a "The enlightened world is as low gallows for its Jewish citizens." as the Iraqis are. It went out of ' He said that appeals for mer- its mind when a few planes in cy to the Iraqi leaders from all Beirut were hit but now" it is noover the world "failed to muster where to be seen or heard." the necessary determination in News of the hangings was this matter and in the matter of broadcast by Baghdad radio Jews in Arab lands in general. against a background of cheer."From this rostrum I demand ing and .clapping by thongs who that the entire world should act poured into Baghdad's Libera• . • in order to avert further tion Square to view 11 bodies acts of murder, to save the fam- swinging from scaffolds. Three il ilies andd to protect the h Jewishh other executions were carried remnant." He said the hangings out in the Persian Gulf oil port were an example of what the -tif Basra, reputed center of the Arab governments would do to alleged spy plot.
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United Natwns,TNiYTTJTAT —Secretary-General U Thant expressed "regret a'hd concern" at the hanging in Iraq. He expressed fears that "the repercussions from this unhappy development will also be likely to impede efforts toward a peaceful settlement of the conflict situation in the Middle East. A statement issued by a UN spokesman noted that as soon as Mr. T h a n t had l e a r n e d of the trials, he "asked the permanent representative of Iraq to convey to his Government the Secretary-General's deep concern about them, and particularly about the impact they would have on public opinion both inside and outside of Iraq." The statement said t h a t "in the exercise of his good offices on h u m a n i t n rian grounds the Secretary-General did not q u e s t i o n the right of the Government of Iraq to put on trial any of its own citizens, as were ap-' parently all of t h o s e convicted, nor could he attempt to apprafse the validity of the charges."
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New York (JTA)—American Jews reacted with outrage to the execution of nine Iraqi Jews, and five non-Jews, by the Baghdad Government on charges of spying for Israel. Arthur J. Goldberg, American Jewish Committee president, urged the United States Government, the UN and all member states, together with non-goyernmental agencies, to condemn the • executions so that "hopefully further executions may be avoided." Expressing "horror and grief," the American Jewish Congress barbarism of the blood-thirsty : urged the State Department to court." The AJCongress added that use "every available diplomatic "everyone with concern for jusrnearis" to prevent the execu- tice—Jew and non-Jews—should tions of C5 persons still to-be . . , , ..I-., . - ,-- communicate immediately with tried for allegedly spying for - President Nixpn and Secretary Israel. Rogers imploring that e v e r y AJ Congress president Rabbi step be taken to prevent the Arthur J. Lelyveld in a telegram murder of those still to be tried." to Secretary of State William P. Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chairRogers said that the executions man of the Jewish Agency-Amerwere "all the more monstrous ican Section, urged in a telebecause Iraq's 3,000 to 4,000 gram to President Nixon that Jews have been held in house Washington intervene through arrest since June, 1907, have diplomatic channels to forestall been subjected to close surveil- f u r t h e r "political' assassinalance and have been absolutely tions." He said, "If Iraq wants to limited in movement and com- be 'Judenrein,' it should permit munication. The fact that it was its, Jews to leave peacefully for clearly impossible for Jews in Israel and other lands; Only thus . Iraq to have engaged in the al- can Iraq preserve whatever, it leged subversive plot has in no may still possess of humanity way deterred the savagery and and decency."
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n e i g h b o r h o o d in what he ties," it has been building for instance, by a publicly-funded charged was "a well-organized . more than two years, the Anti- antipoverty unit. and well-financed -plan to ha- Defamation League of B'nai 4. yThg/e is a clear and presrass white Jewish educators." B'rith charged in a preliminary ent adrfger that school children Mr. Greene claimed that Mr. reportjaLa survey.ofTthe.New:. in the city have beenjnfected Solomon had turned tlowif a^Ne-" York schooj scene. The 25-page ^T^fie^SntPSeinitlc' preachings gro applicant for a position as report names individuals arid -of black extremists who, in educational assistant on grounds cites specific anti-Semitic activ- some cases, are teachers and that he needed bilingual aid but ities. . . - • . . , to whom, these youngsters insubsequently hired a Jew who A Based upon its analysis of creasingly look for leadership. was not bilingual- • Arnold Forster, general counthese activities, the League said ADL SURVEY it had drawn the following ini- sel of the League, who conduct"Raw, u n d i s g u i s e d " anti- tial conclusions a b o u t anti- ed the investigation, said the Semitism is at a crisis level in Semitism in and around the pub- open anti-Semitism exists "in an amount and intensity unlike New York City schools, where, lic schools: "unchecked by public authori1. It has been perpetrated largely by black extremists. 2. Its growth has been aided ATTENriON MEN by the failure of city and state Announcement has j u s t public officials to condemn it been made of a special UJA swiftly and strongly enough, and one week study mission to to remove from positions of New York (JTA)—The New Israel for men. Participants authority those who have utilCity Board of Education will leave Sunday, February ized anti-Semitism," Including York rebuffed this week a request 16 and return Sunday, Febru"representatives of the Council from Mayor John Lindsay that ary 23. • Against Poverty, the city's offi- charges, be brought against two F u r t h e r information is cial antipoverty agency. Negro public school teachers acavailable at the Jewish Fed3. Anti-Semitic material has cused Df blatantly anti-Semitic eration office, 342-13G6. been produced, in at least one comments. The 12-member Board rejected a resolution to that effect by a five to four vqto but then approved a proposal calling on School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and all school district superintendents,to take "appropriate action" against teachers and.supervisors "who,advocate a Valid expression of the prevailing sentiment or stimulate racial or religious The FCC inquiry into the reading of an antihatred," . Semitic poem on WBAI was held up to include a among black students, Mayor Lindsay had. proposed new complaint against the station. The comOne of the Ialter, Tyrone Woods, who dethat charges be brought, against plaint was made in a telegram from the Workscribed himself as a New York University stu- Leslie Campbell, who read an men's Circle, a Jewish fraternal labor organizadent and resident of Ihc Bcdford-Stuyvcsant disanti-Semitic poem on Station tion, demanding suspension of WBAI's llcensft trict of Brooklyn, alleged that "What Hitler did WBAI,in New York City last pending a hearing. The telegram charged1 that to six million Jews Is nothing compared to what Dec. 26, and Albert Vann, presWBAI was "the ghost of Joseph- Goebbels Nazi has been done to black people." lie added, "As ident of the militant Afro-Amerradio network." They referred to last Thursday's far as I'm concerned, more power to Hitler. Ho ican Teachers Association, who Julius Lester show which was devoted to redidn't make enough lampshades out of them. Ho had accused Mayor Lindsay of action to the reading of an anti-Semitic poem on didn't make enough belts out of them." ' trying to "appease the powerthe same program last month by a controversial Negro school teacher, Leslie R. Campbell. Mr. Lester commented moments later that ful Jewish financiers of the Mr.. Lester, a Negro activist, agreed with • WBAI was not responsible for the opinions ex- city" in ordering an investigapressed on its programs, „ tion of the Campbell case. The three Negro panel members that Ihc poem was
New York (JTA) — Tensions between New York's Jewish and Negro communities continued to escalate over the weekend with hew . charges of anti-Semitism, "counter-charges of anti-Negro" bias, and a series of investigations begun or announced on various levels. The newest conflict erupted in Junior High School 22 in The Bronx whose student body, is 50 per cent Negro and 40 per cent Puerto Rican. Its Jewish principal, Edward' L. Solomon, 'charged a black community j group supported by povertyagency funds with anti-Semitic harassment. Jerome'A. Greene, an.official of the groun, the Morrisania Community Corporation, nas demanded a state and city investigation of charges that Mr. Solomon discriminated against s a Negro job applicant. Mr. Solomon said that intruders disrupted classes, threatened teachers and circulated anti-Semitic literature in the
anything New York, has seen in recent decades." Officials Blamed He charged Board of EducatisB..President. JohnJBo.ar. and. Vice President Milton Galamlson with "passivity in the face of outrageous bigotry — when forceful action is the only appropriate response," and said the City Commission on Human Rights had "a false and limited view of its function that, apparently, excludes countering (Continued on Page 6)
Lindsay Request Rebuffed By ICY. Board of Education two Negroes teach at Junior High School 271 in the Ocean Hill Bronwsville experimental school district in Brooklyn, a focal point in the 1968 strike by merribers ofthe largely Jewish United Federation of Teachers.