Page 4-THE NEWS-April, 1988
WORLD BEAT edited by Marta Garelik
U.S. Extremist Groups
Are More Violent
PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA)
— More than 70 racist and
anti-Semitic organizations are
active in the U.S. while the
organization of conspiracy
theorist Lyndon LaRouche
has made inroads in Latin
America, according to reports
released here by the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith.
The 138-page “Hate Groups
in America: A Record of Big
otry and Violence” details an
upsurge of violence by extre
mist groups during the past
six years as their membership
declined.
The violence includes bomb
ings and arson against Jewish,
black or other property and
religious institutions; armed
robberies and shootouts with
law enforcement officers;
counterfeiting operations; and
murders, such as the fatal
shooting of Denver radio
talk show host Alan Berg in
1984.
According to the report, ex
tremists also have conspired
to commit Isirge-scale sabo
tage with the ultimate goal of
overthrowing the American
government in order to estab
lish a white supremacist
regime. The plans, such as the
destruction of dams, were
aborted by law enforcement
action.
Despite neo-Ncizi member
ship being at its “lowest ebb”
since George Lincoln Rockwell
founded the American Nazi
Party in the 1950s, the report
indicates, neo-Nazi groups
reach a widening audience
through the nationwide dis
semination of anti-Semitic
literature and posters. They
also use radio — especially
call-in programs — cable
television and lately a com
puter network. The survey
also points out that youth are
joining the movement. It cites
the Skinheads, the gangs of
shaven-headed youth who wear
neo-Nazi garb and carry out
violence against blacks, Jews
and other minorities.
Skinheads Sentenced
in East Berlin
BERLIN (JTA) - An East
Berlin court sentenced eight
members of a “skinheads”
group to jeul terms of up to
more than three years for at
tacking rock-music fems and
yelling Nazi slogans at a
church concert in October.
During the riot inside and
outside the church, the “skin
heads” screamed slogans from
the Nazi era and insulted peo
ple. The riot had been insti
gated and led by West Berlin
“skinheads.”
The sentences ranged from
three years and nine months
to one year and three months.
Four other “skinheads” al
ready have been jailed for up
to four years for their part in
the attack.
Meese Told of Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Sixty members of Congress
have written Attorney Gen
eral Edwin Meese III recom-
mding that the Justice De
partment act on the “disturb
ing increase in anti-Semitic in
cidents in the United States”
last year.
“We urge you to ensure that
the criminal justice system is
responding appropriately to
this dangerous increase in
anti-religious crimes,” the
representatives said in the let
ter, initiated by Rep. Ted
Weiss (D-N.Y.).
Holocaust Museum
Seeks Materials
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Holocaust-related documents,
especially those created dur
ing the period, are sought by
the U.S. Holocaust Memorid
Museum, scheduled to open
here in 1990.
“To tell that story accurate
ly, authentically and powerful
ly, we need original artifacts,
documents, letters, diaries and
documentary works of art and
photographs that were created
in the camps, in ghettos or in
hiding,” said museum director
Arthur Rosenblatt.
The museum also seeks
material pertaining to armed
or spiritual resistance against
the Nazis and to the reestab
lishment of life that followed.
Individuals and organiza
tions with original material to
donate are asked to send a full
description of it to; Curator,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu
seum, 2000 L St. N.W., Suite
588, Washington, DC 20036.
French Cardinal to Help Fund
Auschwitz Interreligious Center
PARIS (JTA) - France’s
highest ranking Catholic pre
late said he would use a
$35,000 human rights award
to help establish an interre
ligious center at the Ausch
witz death camp in Poland.
Cardinal Albert Decourtray,
a noted friend of Israel and
Jews, was awarded the French
government’s first “prize for
the defense of human rights”
which included the funds.
Decourtray’s intervention is
credited for the Vatican’s deci
sion to remove the convent in
recognition that the Jewish
people were overwhelmingly
the victims of the Nazi death
machine at Auschwitz and
that the camp site must re
main forever linked to Jewish
mzirtyrdom. He has consider
able influence in Vatican cir
cles. He was the only top-
ranking Catholic cleric to
openly express “reservations”
over Pope John Paul II’s
meeting with Austrian Presi
dent Kurt Waldheim at the
Vatican last June because of
Waldheim’s revealed Nazi
past.
Rabbi Urges to Stop
Anti-Semitism in Japan
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
American Jews should con
struct a Jewish cultural center
in Tokyo to disseminate infor
mation that would counter
negative Japanese perceptions
of Jews, Japan’s sole rabbi
urged.
Michael Schudrick, spiritual
leader of the Jewish Conmiuni-
ty Center in Tokyo, explained
that the stereotypes were es-.
sentially the result of a recent
spate of anti-Semitic books.
He delivered his comments fol
lowing a conference on that
literature sponsored by the
American Jewish Committee.
Approximately 170 Jewish
families live in Tokyo and no
more than 1,000 Jews are in
Japan at any given time, the
rabbi estimated. The Japanese
government and people are
not anti-Semitic, he said, and
“no significant acts” of anti-
Semitism have taken place in
Japan in recent ye£u-s.
The problem, as he saw it,
was that some “very unscrup
ulous authors” were “taking
advantages of” the Japanese
public with the anti-Semitic
books. A combined one million
copies have been sold. Masami
Uno’s “If You Understand
Judea, You Will Understand
the World” and “If You
Understand Judea, You Will
Understand Japan.”
Shultzes Were Pampered
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israelis seemd to have spared
no expense to make U.S. Sec
retary of State George Shultz’s
four-day stay here comfort
able.
His huge entourage had
been allotted the top four
floors of the posh Jerusalem
Hilton Hotel. Shultz and his
wife Helena occupied the
Royal Suite on the 20th floor,
which offers such amenities as
a private sauna and luxurious
bathrooms.
There were corsages of or
chids for Helena and a mas
seuse for the secretary of
state. The Hilton flew in a
master chef from West Ger
many to prepare fish to the
Shultzes’ taste.
Hotel maintenance workers
spent five days cleguiing and
repairing the hotel’s indoor
pool. It was filled with fresh
water and heated to 77°, the
temperature Shultz prefers
when he goes swimming.
Tid-Bits
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
Knesset enacted legislation
outlawing sexism at the work
place and protecting women
employees from sexual harass
ment.
The new law prohibits dis
crimination by sex in employ
ment, work conditions, promo
tions, professional training,
dismissal or compensation for
dismissal.
A major provision states
that men as well as women will
be entitled to post-maternity
leave with pay. In addition, a
father may obtain paid leave
to take care of a sick child.
Similar laws exist in Sweden
and severed other European
countries, but they are a rari
ty world-wide.
•
NEW YORK (JTA) - Al
though no Israeli athlete par
ticipated in the 15th Winter
Olympics in Calgary and none
of the top-rated athletes is
known to be Jewish, the cor
ollary events were not without
Jewish content.
The memory of the 11
Israeli athletes killed by Pal
estinian terrorists during the
1972 Olympics in Munich was
honored by the Calgary Jew
ish community at a memorial
service at the Calgary Jewish
Center, attended by more than
750 people, including Calgary
Mayor Ralph Klein.
•
GENEVA (JTA) - Nazi-
hunter Beate Klarsfeld has
again accused the Syrian gov
ernment of harboring Alois
Brunner, one of the most
notorious Nazi war criminsds
still at large, and of ignoring
appeeds that he be brought to
justice.
She told the UN Human
Rights Commission here that
Syrian President Hafez Assad
had not responded to appeals
about Brunner.
•
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
The governments of Britain
and Argentina are taking
steps to bring to justice sus
pected Nazi war criminals re
siding in those countries, the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
reported.
•
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council and Yad Vashem, the
world’s only two national Hol
ocaust institutions, recently
agreed to their first official ex
change of exhibits and consid
ered donating duplicate ma
terials to each other. In addi
tion, they agreed to co-publish
books in English on the Holo
caust and provide assistance
to each other’s scholars and
resegu-chers.
Yad Vashem also has agreed
to participate in the coun
cil’s automated inventory of
Holocaust-related documents
worldwide.
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