The administration has tacitly allied itself with the repressive regime of President Assad in Syria. The State Departments Syria section of the "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1991" touches on the plight of Syrian Jewry. but it fails to give due weight to the dangerous and difficult situation facing Syrian Jews. The Jewish community in Syria is subject to constant government surveillance. which increasingly heightens the atmosphere of fear and insecurity in which they already live. Syria. unlike its Arab neighbors. has refused to allow Jews to emigrate. and has curtailed their personal freedoms. Martin Luther King. Jr.. compared racism to a festering boil that must be exposed in order to heal.
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