Mr. Speaker. antiSemitism in the Soviet Union is not a recent development but last year. beginning with the formation of an AntiZionist Committee. the Soviet Government embarked on a campaign of officially sanctionized antiSemitism. The media. which operates as an organ of the Soviet state. is now openly antiSemitic. arrests of religiously active Jews have been increased. and the right of Jews to emigrate now exists as little more than a legalistic formality in that country. This truly disturbing situation is an affront to the consciences of free men and women everywhere. There are some 2V2 million Jews in the Soviet Union and when an official campaign of. antiSemitism is combined with a severe and increasingly restrictive emigration policy. the plight of Soviet Jews becomes a progressively serious matter. Today. as I join with many of my colleagues in condemning the Soviets for their behavior. I feel a sense of real urgency.
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