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Typical of this view is the position of Oscar Handlin, Professor of History, as put forth in the August issue of Commentary. Attacking the kidnapping, Handlin claims that the Case has been conducted "as if espionage and invasion of another state's sovereignty were irrelevant to the cleanliness of hands of those who presume to sit as judges in the case." He calls attention to the long fight, partly waged by the Jews, for the rights of refugees against enforced extradition. Handlin goes on to challenge Israel's jurisdiction over Eichmann, as "a majority of the world's Jews...
Harvard professors who signed the petition were Herschel C. Baker, J. N. Douglas Bush, Herbert Dieckmann, Wilbur M. Frohock, Albert J. Guerard, Howard Mumford Jones, Harry T. Levin, John M. Gaus, Oscar Handlin, David F. Cavers, Caleb Foote, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Kenneth V. Thimann, George Wald, Roderick Firth, John T. Edsall, Gordon W. Allport, Talcott Parsons, and Cedric H. Whitman...
...question of abolishing the Committee has now become "academic," since the House almost unanimously voted to renew the HUAC's appropriation, Howe said. Handlin, while noting that the Committee "has abused its privileges and hasn't served a useful function in 15 years", said that "it is not realistic to think that Congress will suddenly turn against...
...Handlin emphasized that the attitude of the Israeli government is a potential threat to all overseas Jews. Punishment by a Jewish state of crimes against Jews elsewhere might well "constitute an abandonment or qualification of the rights of Jews to full and equal citizenship" in countries other than Israel...
...more than a century Western Jews strove to avoid isolation as victims of persecution, Handlin added. They associated themselves with public feeling and "made the cause of other oppressed groups their own." "Involved in all such issues was an appeal to common conscience and a common stake in human decency...