Their struggles inspired American Jews to establish the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1964 in order to campaign on behalf of their fellow Soviet brethren. After the SixDay War in 1967. the Soviets intensified the persecution of the Jewish community through statecontrolled media and by reducing Jewish autonomy. Soon a mass exodus. a mass emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union began. These developments helped to galvanize the advocacy movement within the U.S. Over the following years. this mass advocacy movement helped spur the U.S. Government to achieve much. Perhaps most notably. in 1975 President Ford signed into law the JacksonVanik Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974. This amendment prohibited the extension of trade benefits to countries that limited immigration and otherwise infringed human rights. It was drafted specifically with the plight of Soviet Jews in mind. Later.
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