Those who have fought this battle for long know that Soviet human rights gestures are usually just that. that officially sanctioned antiSemitism continues in the Soviet Union. that in the past month alone. three Soviet newspapers. among them the powerful Izvestia. have published blatantly antiSemitic attacks on refuseniks. So we must continue to watch. hope. and pray that the Soviets will deliver on their promise of freedom. We must all join in urging the administration to pressure the Soviet Union to recognize the requests of the Refuseniks to emigrate. We must remember that antiSemitism is only one form of an evil of the spirit that threatens all groups. that none of us can permit to pass without some form of intelligent reaction. Not only because we are morally obliged to protect the Jewish people as our brothers and sisters. but because in the process we protect ourselves.
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