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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1986
BIAS IN NICARAGUA
REPORTED BY JEWS
Anti-Defamation League Says
Accusation by Reagan in
Speech Was Accurate
Reason for White Paper
By ALEXANDER REID
The B'nai B'rith paper said the
The Anti-Defamation League of
persecution grew out of the Govern-
B'nai B'rith asserted yesterday that
ment's hostility toward Israel and the
President Reagan was correct when he
Sandinista relationship with the Pales-
accused the Nicaraguan Government
tine Liberation Organization.
of persecuting Jews in Nicaragua.
The paper was published "to set the
The group issued a four-page white
record straight, to answer published
paper in which it said the Government
denials about the Sandinistas' treat-
conducted a campaign of death threats
ment of Jews," said Abraham H. Fox-
and harassment against Nicaraguan
man, associate national director for
"Jews. The persecution led to the flight
the league and head of its International
of almost all the Jews in Nicaragua,
Affairs Division.
the league said.
Mr. Foxman was speaking of reports
President Reagan, in a televised
by agencies and individuals who inves-
speech Sunday night calling for Con-
tigated and found no evidence of perse-
gress to approve $100 million for anti-
cution.
Government rebels, said that Mana-
Rabbi Balfour Brickner of the Ste-
gua's only synagogue had been "dese-
phen Wise Free Synagogue in New
crated and firebombed" and that the
York, who investigated charges of anti-
"entire Jewish community" had been
Semitism by the Sandinista Govern-
"forced to flee Nicaragua."
ment during a visit in July 1984, said:
Five investigations into allegations
"I'm not impressed by any white paper
of anti-Semitism in Nicaragua found no
by the Anti-Defamation League which
grounds for such charges, according to
presumes to set the record straight. All
a report last November by the Council
if actually does is to confirm their own
on Hemispheric Affairs, a liberal lob-
previously held position, which hap-
bying group that opposes Administra-
pens to be in line with the view of the
tion policy.
President."
The B'nai B'rith report yesterday de-
Rabbi Brickner said that in two visits
tailed the firebombing of a synagogue
to Nicaragua he had found no persecu-
in Managua, death threats against
tion.
Jews, the burning of cars belonging to
"He asserted that the few Jews in the
Jews and the confiscation of property
country before the 1979 revolution that
owned by prominent Jews.
trappled Anastasio Somoza Debayle
The organization said the reports
were linked to Mr. Somoza and left the
came from Nicaraguan exiles, disclo-
country of their own accord after the
sures from a former Sandinista and in-
revolution.
vestigations by the league over the last
five years, the league said.
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