Page4-THE NEWS-April, 1983
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Swiss City Hit
By Anti-Semitism
GENEVA (JTA) - Swiss
police are investigating the
recent emergence of what ap*
pears to be a well organized
campaign of virulent anti-
Semitism in Basel, located
near the German border. Its
targets are not only Jews but
non-Jewish families who
have Jewish friends. The
campaign is aimed parti
cularly against faculty and
students of the medical
school in Basel. Jewish
students have been advised
not to attend a faculty party
because their lives may be in
danger.
Vicious anti-Semitic
slogans have been daubed on
the walls of the local
synagogue, the Jewish
cemetery, public telephone
booths and on the walls of
underpasses near the univer
sity. Some of the slogans
read, “Jews Out”; “Jews are
Swine”; “Auschwitz was in
vented by the Jews.” On the
bulletin board of the medical
school faculty, someone
wrote: “Jews, sons of pros
titutes, out of here.”
The campaign is well
organized and unrestrained
in its viciousness.
About 200 university
students in Basel demon
strated over a week later to
the above. The federal
government, various polit
ical parties and churches
have denounced these
manifestations. Police are
investigating but have been
unable to find the perpet
rators so far.
Non-Jews among the dem
onstrators declared that they
were “deeply shocked by the
anti-Semitic campaign
against Jewish students”
and expressed full solidarity
with them.
Chicago City Council Urges
U.S. To Aid Falasbas
CHICAGO (JTA) - The
Chicago City Council, by a
vote of 43-2, adopted a
resolution urging the U.S. to
assist in rescuing and reset
tling the Falashas, the Jews
of Ethiopia.
The resolution noted “The
Ethiopian Jews are amongst
the oldest continuous Jewish
communities in existence.”
The Council resolved to
“urge President Reagan and
the Congress to take all steps
necessary to assist the
Ethiopian Jews and to use
all available resources to
make freedom, rescue and
resettlement of these people
possible.”
The Jewish Community
in Argentina
(JTA) — The 1,323-page
State Department’s annual
report on the human rights
situation in Argentina
claims “significant expan
sion of civil and political
liberties” in 1982.
Argentina’s Jewish com
munity, estimated at
300,000-450,000, “practices
its religion without official
restraint,” the report states.
“It represents an important
part of the country’s
economic and cultural life,
and the government main
tains good relations with the
community. There is no
evidence of an official policy
of anti-Semitism.”
The report adds that “oc
casional incidents” occur,
such as the desecration of a
Jewish cemetery in Feb
ruary, 1982. “The govern
ment strongly condemned
the vandalism, with Presi
dent Galieri’s personal de
nunciation given wide distri
bution by all the news media.
Jewish community leaders
called the government’s
repudiation of anti-Semitism
‘unprecedented’ in its force-
fullness.”
Israelis Healthy
(Jewish Post & Opinion) —
Israelis are among the
healthiest people on earth.
Child mortality is low, and
longevity is great. This con
dition can be attributed to
the Kupat Cholim (Sick
Fund) of the Histadrut which
has been providing health in
surance and hospital bene
fits to the populace for years.
Kupat Cholim is currently
observing its 70th anniver
sary and has 2,000 clinics,
hundreds of pharmacies,
laboratories galore, 16
hospitals, mental institu
tions, 13 nursing schools,
and many doctors who act
ually make house calls.
Names in the News
(Jewish Post& Opinion) —
Every year, Allen Quille, a
Baltimore black business
man, buys $50,000 in Israel
Bonds, and since 1976 he has
visited Israel once a year. A
millionaire many times over,
he operates parking garages,
and is a life member of the
Zionist Organization and a
vice-president of the Jewish
National Fund: He credits
Jewish sources with helping
him get started in business.
Menachem Begin presented
him with B’nai B’rith’s Man
of the Year award 18 years
ago.
' •
(JTA) - Dr. Hugh
Montefiore, Bishop of Bir
mingham, a member of the
eminent Sephardi family
whose greatest figure was Sir
Moses Montefiore, the 19th
century philanthropist and
defender of oppressed
Jewry, preached at a church
which is staging an exhibi
tion of Holocaust material on
loan from the official
Auschwitz Museum in
Poland.
Referring to “an at
mosphere of hatred” in the
Gospels of St. Matthew and
St. John, Bishop Montefiore
said: “It is here, right at the
heart and center of the New
Testament writings that we
find the beginnings of anti-
Semitism which has been so
rampant in the church.”
•
VIENNA (JTA) -
Chancellor Bnino Kreisky, a
sharp critic of Israeli policy,
said the report by the in
quiry commission “indicates
that Israel is a democracy
and a state based on law...I
am overwhelmed. This
report will repair Israel’s
damaged image in the
world.”
' •
LONDON (JTA) - The
British Foreign Office took a
virtually unprecedented step
in summoning the Soviet
Ambassador to discuss the
plight of imprisoned Jewish
dissident Anatoly Shcharan*
sky. Foreign Secretary Fran
cis Pym told Ambassador
Viktor Popov that Shcharan-
sky should be released im
mediately, and expressed
concern about the effect of
his hunger strike and forci
ble feeding. Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher granted
an interview to Shcharan-
sky’s wife, Avital, and
publicly supported her
singlehanded campaign for
his release.
Tid'Bits
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Ben
Gurion Airport is to lease
from the U.S. what is regard
ed as the “latest word” in
American radar, now in use
in 96 leading U.S. airports
throughout the country. U.S.
Federal Aviation Admini
stration officials are already
in Israel to train local per
sonnel in use of the new
equipment.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The late Arthur Rubinstein
left half a million dollars in
his wilHor the beautification
of Jerusalem.
•
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A
group of South African
scientists are in Israel to
study its rain-making
systems, anticipating a
water shortage in South
Africa by the year 2020. The
Hebrew University labor
atory has a world-wide
reputation for successfully
seeding clouds to produce
considerable increase in
local rainfalls.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The Jewish National Fund
will plant a forest in memory
of the 200,000 Jewish soldiers
in the Red Army who fell in
battle against the Nazis dur
ing World War II. About a
half million Jewish soldiers
served with the Red Army
during the war.
•
PARIS (JTA) — President
Francois Mitterrand will
convene an international
conference which will study
the best ways to prevent
anti-Semitism, racism and
discrimination in the world.
•
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
— Nearly 40 San Francisco
homosexual Jews met
recently to form a non-profit
corporation called Congrega
tion Ahavat Shalom, which
holds Sabbath services on
Fridays at the Metropolitan
Community Church.
Interesting Headlines
Second Test Tube Baby
Born In Israel
•
CEAUSESCU Authorizes
Shipment of Jewish
Religious Items to Israel
•
Poll Shows Majority of
French People Favor Re
instatement of Death Penal
ty In The Case of Klaus Bar
bie
U.S. Investors Established
18 New Firms in Israel in
1982
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