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SIEFF ATTACK - A BLOW AT ZIONISM

· Red Weekly No. 34, 11 January 1974 · p. 12 of the scan · 295 words

The scan: rw-no34-jan-11-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

attempred assassination of Spencer and former Vice-President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain, has provoked the habitual hullaballoo-about international terтог.* The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which claimed responsibility for the attack, points out that Sueff had given Israel an enormous amount of financial aid. He is believed to have donated C2 million Red Weekly 11 January 1974 Page 12 since the October war alone. The PFLP have denounced this as a crime against the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs, the victims of this kind of Zionist philanthropy.

Panic being whappod up in the Jewish communities with lalk of a "death-list" of prominent Anglo-Jewish leaders, und those who defcod the lagitimucy of the Popular Front's action will be condemned as antisemite@ and lumped together with fascist sroups such as the Nafional Irant which seck to exploit the oil crisis or the Arab Iracli conflict for anti-emitig parposes. at Jewish people in general it is aimed al the financial backers of the Zionist state. No talk of toti-semitism"- vicious fornt of racism which must be opposed wherever it appears-must he allosed to absoure the fact that the Zionist state, and the inperialise powers which support it, are the mumies of Arah and les atke. . lewish people must repudiate the Sictts and speak out against the oppression of the Palestinians, who hav been made to pay for the pust crimes of the Furopean ruling class against the Jews.

The PFLP action was probably designod to do more than disrupt the flow of

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