Word: zionism
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...announcement of the arrest of the Moscow doctors to make Jewish hearts everywhere miss a beat that morning. In many Jewish minds was the thought: So it has begun-the Soviet pogrom. In the trial of Rudolf Slansky and his ten Jewish Communist comrades last November on charges of "Zionism and bourgeois Jewish nationalism," there had been room for doubt. In their cynical ways the Communists might simply have been making a play for Arab support. They had taken pains to make a distinction between anti-Zionism and antiSemitism. That distinction no longer exists...
Meanwhile, the insistent, blatant note of anti-Semitism-masked as a battle against "Zionism" and "Jewish nationalism"-at the Prague trial struck louder & louder reverberations of protest from world Jewry. The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed a resolution expressing "outrage." The Knesset's Communists, though plainly disturbed by the goings-on in Prague, swallowed their fears and voted against the resolution...
Czechoslovakia's 18,000 Jews, all that remained after Nazi occupation and postwar emigration, were reported to be alarmed. There were indications, also, that Prague-style purges might spread to other satellites. In Budapest, a Communist newspaper proclaimed that "Zionism" was rampant in Hungary, and called for action against it. This would take some doing, since Hungary's Communist Dictator Matyas Rakosi and his two chief lieutenants are Jews...
...Czech prosecutor, in summing up his case against 14 defendants, 11 of whom were Jews, said "They are rats, snakes, and cannibals, and the verdict of the judges must fall like an iron fist on this nest of snakes without mercy." Zionism was listed as one of their major crimes...
Listening with Horror. By week's end twelve of the 14 had finished their stories. Throughout their testimony, the theme of "Zionism" and "Jewish nationalism" recurred. Two Israeli Jews, Mordecai Oren and Shlomo Orenstein, who had been arrested many months ago while passing through Prague, were brought forth at the trial as witnesses and testified against the "Zionists." Orenstein said he knew of a plot hatched in 1947 by Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Henry Morgenthau, with David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett of Israel, to plant Israeli spies in the Communist Balkans in return for U.S. favors...