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TEXAS JEWISH POST NEW YEAR ISSUE THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1983 PAGE 2
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UN Chief Orders Anti-Israel Poster Exhibition
Dismantled Following a Strong Israeli Protest
BY YITZHAK RABI
UNITED NATIONS
[JTA] — An anti-Israeli
poster exhibition here was
dismantled at the order of
Secretary General Javier
Perez de Cuellar, following a
strong Israeli protest. The
exhibition of pro-Palestinian
posters was sponsored by
the Secretariat of the UN
International Conference on
the Question of Palestine,
which is scheduled to take
place in Geneva from Au-
gust 29 to September 7.
De Cuellar announced his
decision to dismantle the
display, which was set in the
public lobby of the UN
headquarters, after Ambas-
sador Yehuda Blum of Israel
protested that the posters in
the exhibition were not only
anti-Israeli but anti-Semitic
as well. Blum drew the
attention of the Secretary
General to one poster in
particular that depicted a
hammer smashing a Star of
David, fashioned out of
chains, on the background of
the map of the State of
Israel.
Israeli sources said that
Blum conveyed his protest
first in a telephone conver-
sation with de Cuellar and
later submitted the protest
in an official letter.
The exhibit, which was
scheduled to run until this
Sunday and was opened on
Tuesday, consisted of about
40 posters in several lang-
uages, published by the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation and other Palestinian
and pro-Palestinian groups.
The exhibit was cleared
by the UN’s Exhibits Com-
mittee. The guidelines of the
Committee include, among
other provisions, the stipu-
lation that “due regard
should be paid to the
All-Time *128 Million Goal
Set By NY UJA-Federation
sensitivities of UN member-
states.” Israeli diplomats
said that the poster exhibi-
tion clearly did not meet this
particular condition.
A UN spokesman said
that the posters that were
displayed are part of the
personal collection of Daniel
Walsh, a resident of Wash-
ington.
In his letter of protest,
which was circulated here
recently, Blum charged that
the exhibition was “yet
another manifestation of the
misuse of UN funds, machin-
ery and premises in the
relentless campaign of vilifi-
cation waged by the enemies
of my country.” Blum also
charged that “some member
of the staff of the UN
Secretariat have also grave-
ly compromised the impar-
tiality and integrity requir-
ed of this organ of our
organization.”
Blum noted, however, his
“satisfaction” that the Sec-
retary General “issued the
necessary instruction for the
immediate removal of the
exhibition” as soon as he
became “aware of this
outrage.” But Blum added
that the exhibition should
not have taken place on the
UN premises in the first
place.
Begin Appointee Expected
To Get Post in Washington
Despite Union Opposition
NEW YORK [JTA] - The
goal for the 1984 drive of the
New York UJA-Feder-
ation campaign is $128
million, Morton Kornreich,
the campaign general chair-
man, announced, adding that
the target was “an all-time
record.”
Kornreich also said that
the goal “represents the
minimum level necessary to
jrovide the most basic
services for our fellow Jews
in need in Israel, around the
world and here in New
York.” He said nearly four
million people are helped
each year with the funds
raised in each annual drive.
He said the 1983 drive,
still in progress, is expected
to raise $100 million, as well
as another $14 million for
the Israel Emergency Fund.
He said the $128 million
target was determined
through “a hard-nosed eval-
uation” by campaign leaders
and professional staff of the
needs which must be met
and “a realistic appraisal of
what the Greater New York
community can achieve.”
Kornreich said the goal-
setting process started in
January when data was
collected in the needs of the
major campaign beneficiar-
ies: the Jewish Agency, the
American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, the
New York Association for
New Americans, the He-
brew Immigrant Aid Socie-
ty, and the 130 agencies in
the network of the Feder-
ation of Jewish Philanth-
ropies.
The 1984 campaign also
will focus on Project Renew-
al, which requires another
$6 million to complete the
physical, economic and social
rehabilitation of Hat.ikvah
the depressed neighborhood
in Tel Aviv for which the
New York UJA Federa-
tion campaign has assumed
responsibility. Kornreich
said that, since 1979, $14
million has been raised in
New York for Hatikvah.
Asserting that the New
York campaign “has plenty
of room to grow,” Kornreich
declared that “both from the
point of view of amounts
given per capita and the
number of givers as a per-
centage of the Jewish popu-
lation, the UJA Federa-
tion campaign here has
fallen behind those in other
cities.” From 1975 to 1982,
he reported, the New York
campaign grew by 18 per-
cent, while in the same
period growth in Chicago
was 36 percent and in Los
Angeles 37 percent.
WASHINGTON — Des
pite the opposition of Israel’s
union of foreign service
career officers, including
half of the diplomatic per-
sonnel at the embassy in
Washington, Prime Minister
Menachem Begin’s appoin-
tee of Yoram Ettinger as
minister for information in
Washington is expected to
prevail. .
Informed Israeli sources
here said that while “the
union’s struggle is not over”
it is expected that Ettin-
ger, described as “a, very
bright, virgorous, know-
ledgeable" aide to Begin in
his mid-thirties, will in due
course of time come to
Washington as successor to
Harry Hurwitz who had
served in the post for three
years. Hurwitz returned
Aug. 4 to Jerusalem to serve
in Begin’s office to work
with Jewish communities
abroad.
All ten foreign service
careerists at the Embassy
here joined in a cable
addressed to Foreign Minis-
try Director General David
Kiche after their union in
Jerusalem had protested
that a career official should
be named as Hurwitz’s suc-
cessor. The embassy numb-
ers about a score of diplo-
matic personnel including
attaches for military, econ-
omic, labor and agricul-
tural duties along with the
deputy chief of mission,
Benyamin Natanyahu. Am-
bassador Meir Rosenne is a
careerist but he did not sign
the cable. Neither did
Netanyahu or Hurwitz,
neither of them a career
official.
Before Ettinger can be
transferred to Washington
he must be approved by an
internal commission of the
Anniversary Walk on Shabbat
Most Jewish Groups Will Not Join King March
•Rabbi Schindler Plans to Deliver Benediction
m.' '
r
The late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
With the possible exception of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, major American
Jewish communal organizations will not
have delegations in the demonstration in
Washington Aug. 27 to commemorate the
civil rights march in the capital 20 years ago
led by the martyred Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr.
At press time, the head office of the Con-
gress in New York said no decision had been
made.
Set back by anti-Israel implications per-
ceived in the published call for the march by
its organizers and the fact that it is being held
on the sabbath, Jewish communal leaders
have urged their organizations to conduct
their own programs in honor of King, whose
“I had a dream” speech at the Lincoln
Memorial in 1963 shook America.
While officials of organizations such as
the American Jewish Committee, Bnai
Brith, Hadassah and the Jewish War Vete-
rans refused to participate in the demonstra-
tion on the Washington Mall either because
of the sabbath or wording in the call or both,
the Congress and the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations looked for a re-
statement of the call that would eliminate
anti-Israel implications before making their
decisions. The only group of Jews that has
resolved to participate in the march is the
New Jewish Agenda.
Following a letter signed by the Rev.
Walter Fauntroy, the District of Columbia’s
delegate in the U.S. House of Representa-
tives, and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow
of the Black leader, Rabbi Alexander
Schindler, the UAHC’s president, said he
See King March-Page 30
Foreign Affairs Ministry
which has yet to act on the
appointment. Ettinger for
the last half-dozen years has
been in charge of infor-
mation in the prime minis-
ter’s office. He is under-
stood not to be a member of
Likud, Begin’s political coali-
tion. He has had experience
in America with student
bodies on campuses in
California and also worked
for the U.S. Information
Service in Jerusalem. His
knowledge of American af-
fairs is reported excellent.
Israeli sources have agreed
on his competence. Accord-
ing to Israeli sources, the
union contends that under
an agreement with Israeli
governments, Labor as well
as Likud, the government is
to name not more than 15
non-career officers as heads
of missions or other posts
designated as career posi-
tions. Israel’s missions num-
ber about 65. Unlike the
U.S. system whereby the
President can appoint non-
careerists to ambassadorial
posts and about a third of
them are political appoin-
tees, Israel has the British
system whereby an ambas-
sador is considered a civil
servant who continues at his
post regardless of the
government in power.
The union also contends
that when Hurwitz was
appointed, Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir promised
that appointment would not
set a “precedent” and that
naming a non-careerist as
his successor means “it’s
becoming a trend.” The
information minister’s
duties in Washington in-
cludes coordination of in-
formation policy among Is-
rael’s eleven consulates in
the U.S., including the one
being newly established in
Denver. The others are in
Washington, New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Atlan-
ta, Miami, Chicago, Houston
Los Angeles and San Fran-
cisco.
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