Soviet Jews: Fact And Fiction

in the West, especially spokesmen for Zionist

organizations in the United States and Great

Britain and numerous Zionist publications in

these countries, have been trying to put over the

idea that there is anti-Semitism and discrimina-

tion against Jews in the USSR.

This propaganda campaign was intensified in

connection with the Soviet Union’s position re-

garding Israel’s aggression against the neighbour-

ing Arab states in June 1967.

Lacking evidence of anti-Semitism in the

USSR bourgeois propaganda resorts to out-

right distortions and garbled facts. To make their

allegations ring true bourgeois propagandists re-

fer to articles in the Soviet press which expose

the reactionary nature of Zionism, denounce the

adventurist position of the Israeli extremists tor-

pedoing efforts to arrive at a settlement of the acu-

te military and political crisis in the Middle East. The bourgeois press bemoans the alleged

growing Soviet anti-Semitism, persecution of

Jews, etc. Attempts are made to draw a parallel

between Zionist ideology and Israeli extremists

on the one hand, and Soviet Jews, on the other.