Jordan Ambassador Terms Zionist Move An 'Inhuman Attack'

The Zionist movement into Israel was termed "on of the most inhuman acts of the 20th century" by Abdul Momen Rifa'i,' ambassador from Jordan to the United States, at the Law School Forum on "Harmony in the Middle East" last night.

Carefully distinguishing between the Jewish religion, which he called "a highly respected faith," and Zionism, Rifa'i declared that Zionism was "a radical political movement."

The Zionist movement was inhuman, said Rifa'i, because 900,000 Arabs had been made homeless when the Jews, under Zionist impetus, took control of part of Palestine.

Rifa'i also said that he felt the American press was not reporting the situation in Israel objectively, but was favoring the Zionist position.

Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College in Maryland and a member of "Christians for Palestine," which he called "sympathetic to the Zionist movement," said that he felt that Israel was "in many ways, the most exciting country on God's earth to an American."