Evening star., 1953-01-24
Jews and the KremIin

There can be no doubt that the Kremlin,
whatever its motivation or objective, has openly
embraced an anti-Semitic policy comparable to
the one pursued by Hitler and the Nazis The
policy has been set in notion deliberately, cold
bloodedly, throughout the world behind the Iron
Curtain-in every Soviet land with Jewish
minority, including not least of all Russia itself.
OF course, although it has blown its own
horn great deal about its so-called constitu-
tional guarantees against minority discrimina-
ton or persecution of any sort, the Soviet die
tatorship has engaged in sly forms of Jewish
repression on more than few occasions in the
past. But now-and this is what makes the
whole grim business look doubly significant
1t is not even trying to be sly. On the contrary,
with little or no effort at disguise, it seems al
most oStentatiouSly intent upon reaWakening
and inflaming the kind of anti-SemitiSm that
dates back long way in the history of pre-
Communist Russia and of many Of the Euro
pean states that have been Subverted and forced
to come under the rule of MoScow's Red puppets.
Thus, through its weekly magazine called
New Times the Kremlin has just cut loose with
its most virulent attack to date on Israel, on
the leaders of the Tel-Aviv government, on
Zonists and on international" Jews in general.
Among other things, the attack accuses the top
Israeli authorities of waging "a cruel war Of
destruction against the local Arab population
in Palestine" and it brands them as agents Of
the intelligence services of Britain and the
United states-agents who have "sold out" to
Anglo-American imperialism in worldwide
conspiracy aimed at establishing "bloody.
Fascist regimes permeated by spirit of racial
bigotry, including anti-SemitSm."
This extraordinarily poisonous assault
which suggests that there may soon be COM
plete Russian-Israeli diplomatic break-has
been pegged to the Kremlins recent discovery"
of fantastic "plot" by nine terrorist" doctors
(most of them JewS) to murder Soviet leaders.
Coupled with the obvious anti-Semitic char
acter of the November treason trials" in
Czechoslovakia and with signs that similar
'purges" are in the making in East Germany,
Romania, Poland and other satellite lands, this
is thing that has all the earmarks of propa-
ganda prelude to some kind Of sensational
"liquidating" action. At any rate, nobody should
be surprised if the Stain dictatorship strikes
out in the near future, with more than its Gus
tomary savagery, at enemies of the state"
within the Red empire. Nobody should be sur
prised, either, if the blows fall chiefly on "Zion
iSt conSpiratorS" and Jewish tools" OF Anglo
American "warmongerS."
Why such anti-SemitiSm? Outsiders can
at best only speculate. Thus: u) Stain and his
co-conspirators may be seeking to make hay in
the Middle East by exploiting Arab hostility to-
ward Israel; (2) they may feel that their Hit
lerism will gain them ground among neo-NaA
elements in West Germany; 60 they may need
a Scapegoat to divert from themselves wide
spread resentment growing out of economic
and other forms of misery within their bleak
empire; a. they may be experiencing the con-
vulsion of an internal power contest, and their
resulting sense of mutual suspicion and inse-
curity may be driving them to concentrate on
the Jews in their midst as "coSmopolites" to be
feared because of family ties with the free world,
and (5 they may be striving primarily, with
their talk about "zionists' plotting with US to
set up abloody Fascist regimes" to add further