Mr. Speaker. it has been my privilege today to fast in support of the congressional vigil for Soviet Jewry. The plight of the Soviet Jewish community has not improved. Immigration has ground to a nearstandstill. Repression still remains at the worst level since Stalin. Indeed. portents for the future are even more sinister. An "AntiZionist Committee" has appeared in the Soviet Union. gaining instant notoriety by its pronouncement that all the Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union had been allowed to leave. This is totally and completely false. This statement tries to deny the very real human tragedy of the thousands of Soviet Jews who have suffered the hardships of becoming refuseniks so that they can live in freedom. "AntiZionist Committees" and their ilk are part of the trappings of antisemitism and persecution the world over.
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