Plans for an intensified campaign “of information and action,” to involve every college campus in the New York area, in protest against persecution of Jews in the USSR, will be formulated this week by a new organization, Students Struggle for Soviet Jewry, which massed 1,000 pickets this weekend near the Soviet Embassy in New York, according to an announcement today.
The announcement was made by James Birnbaum, coordinator of the movement, who said the protests against the Soviet anti-Jewish persecutions had developed spontaneously on 13 college campuses whose students were among the USSR Embassy pickets. Colleges and universities represented, he said, included Columbia, Hunter, Barnard, Brooklyn, City, Queens, Yeshiva University and Jewish Theological Seminary.
The students, he said, will develop plans for further “dramatic” action against Soviet anti-Semitism, and will acquaint students in all summer camps this year with the religious and cultural oppressions suffered by Jews in the USSR.
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