THE CORNELL LAW SCHOOL

MILTON R. KONVITZ MYRON TAYLOR HALL
PROFESSOR OF LAW ITHACA, N. Y. 14850
AND

PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL
AND LABOR RELATIONS

Reply address: Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, N. Y. 14850

Professor Joshua Lederberg
School of Medicine
Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Dear Professor Lederberg:

In recent months vituperative attacks on Zionism have risen
steadily. Whether from the Soviet Union, the Arab States, or extrem-
ist groups here and abroad, these attacks.are, too often, barely dis-
guised anti-Semitic acts.

The time has come to condemn forthrightly all such efforts
to discredit the Jewish people and the State of Israel through blatant
anti-Zionist propaganda.

A most effective response to these attacks, in view of the
deliberate misrepresentation of Zionism, would be widespread support
for an endorsement of the true meaning of Zionism as the national
liberation movement of the Jewish people. Through public statements
we can repudiate this distortion of Zionism, and so reject the insidious
attempts to separate the interests of the Jewish people from the State
of Israel and their fellow Jews in the Soviet Union.

At a time when anti-Semitism as one of its weapons seeks to
proscribe Zionism, will you serve as one of the 10 - 12 prominent
academic leaders who will invite our colleagues to sign the enclosed

statement.
Sincerely yours,
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I respect the convictions of Jews who believe in the essentiality of
the State of Israel for the fulfillment of their cultural aspirations;
but I am not sufficiently imbued’ with that belief myeelf to subscribe
to this statement. If I did, I would surely join the Aliyah.

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