The latest crackdown. which began this past summer. is a concentrated and systematic attack on Hebrew teachers and cultural activists. Several teachers have been searched. threatened. arrested and sentenced to prison and labor camps on trumpedup charges. Their real crime is their active struggle to secure the right to emigrate to Israel or to live as Jews. without discrimination. The rate of Jewish emigration has been the lowest in a decade and a half. though over 350.000 Jews have begun the emigration process. The tight policies aimed at stemming Jewish emigration have been coupled with efforts to isolate and Intimidate Jewish activists. policies aimed at the total obliteration of any vestiges of Jewish religious and cultural identity. and the forced assimilation of Soviet Jews. The official AntiZionist Committee is waging a virulent antiSemitic campaign in the Soviet media. The campaign has featured attacks on individual Jews.
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