Zionist Detects Anti-Semitism

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31151, 30 August 1966, Page 17

Zionist Detects Anti-Semitism

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

NEW YORK, August 29.

The head of the Zionist Organisation of America called on leaders of Jewish groups throughout the United States to give top priority to combating what he described as the “resurgence of anti-Semitism,” says the “New York Times.”

Jacques Torczyner, president of the Zionist organisation, asserted that racial conflicts throughout the country had “escalated anti-Jewish prejudices and have intensified anti-Semitism, even among wide circles of Negroes here.”

Torczyner said that the "socalled w’hite backlash in the south, in the mid-west, and currently in Chicago mostly led by and instigated by extreme Rightist forces, has opened the doors to such antiSemitic elements as the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party.” He spoke before Zionist leaders from all parts of the United States at the close of the two-day meeting of the national executive committee, the group’s ruling body. Torczyner, whose organisation has more than 100,000 members, cited the recent outbreaks of swastika daubing at synagogues in New Jersey, New Mexico, Florida and California. He called attention to anti-

Semitic outrages in various parts of the world, including England, France and Latin America.