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Demonstrations Against the Immigration of non-Jews from the C.I.S.

by Betzalel Kahn

A few score members of the Shai organization (the Association for the Preservation of the Jewish Character of Israeli Society) demonstrated last week in front of the office of the Prime Minster in Jerusalem.

The demonstration was attended by Jewish residents of Jerusalem who had been born in the C.I.S. The demonstrators, among them well-known aliya activists from the 70's, spoke in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Russian, as they protested the continuation of the mass importation of non-Jews from the C.I.S., and the destruction Minister Sharansky is wreaking on the nation by means of the measures he is taking in order to permit the unlimited entry of non-Jews from those countries into Israel.

This past Monday, activists of the association protested in front of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. The demonstrators held placards with slogans such as "Prevent the Jewish Agency from Importing non-Jews," "Block the Channels for the Importation of non-Jews," "Stop the Importation of non-Jews." The demonstrators turned to passersby who crowed the area, and explained that the personnel of the Jewish Agency earn their livelihoods from recruiting aliya candidates from the ranks of non-Jews interested in leaving the C.I.S. The passersby expressed their support of the demonstrators, and some were very outspoken in their opposition to the policy of importing of non-Jews from the C.I.S.

Later on the demonstrators returned to the Prime Minister's office. One of the demonstrators cried out over the microphone: "Ehud Barak, I appeal to you as one soldier to another: Come out of your trauma. Stop importing non-Jews. Take a good look at the surging crime rate, the ever increasing rate of juvenile delinquency, and the destructive effects of the non-Jews from C.I.S. on our young Israeli soldiers."


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