ADL Urges Rogers to Investigate Anti-israel Xmas Mailing

The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith asked Secretary of State William P. Rogers Friday to investigate whether an anti-Israel Christmas mailing to Americans by the Jordanian Ambassador to the United States is in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

In a letter to Rogers, Benjamin R. Epstein, ADL director, said that the mailing–a recording entitled "Jerusalem in Captivity: A Personal Message from King Hussein," and an accompanying letter–gives "a wholly distorted picture of the conditions of Jerusalem under Israeli rule." He enclosed copies of the letter and recording.

Both were sent this month to tens of thousands of American businessmen, religious leaders, college professors and government officials in all sections of the country from the Jordanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., by Zuhayr Mufti, Ambassador of Jordan to the United States. Epstein told Rogers that the ADL was disturbed by this misuse of the Christmas season to dispense anti-Israel propaganda which has the effect of dividing Americans by their religious beliefs."

He added that "beyond that, neither the letter nor the recording bears a statement as required by Section 4 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act for the transmission in the United States of political propaganda by agents of a foreign principal required to register under the act."

Premier Golda Meir told the Cabinet yesterday that she would go to Paris next month for the meeting of the Socialist International. Officials in Jerusalem would not say whether she would be meeting with French leaders or visit outside Paris.

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