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spilled starting on Saturday the 13 of March 1994, according to Muslim
month (1/Shawal 1414). May the almighty witness our deed."
A special branch of the secret police in Syria –the Makhabrat–
was assigned to keep the Jewish community?s activities under constant
surveillance. Emigration of the Jews was forbidden. When Jews who still
tried to escape illegally were caught, they were thrown in jail without
a trial or charge. Jews were not permitted to be a candidate in an
election nor were they granted voting rights. Travel was allowed only
for medical treatment or to visit relatives In order to assure their
return, they were required to leave as family members behind as well as
large sums of money. There were restrictions on the numbers of Jews
allowed to attend University, and the only Jewish schools in Damascus
were ordered to accept a vast number of Palestinian students. The Jews
were forced to wear identity cards, marking their religion on it. All
mail from outside Syria was censored and telephone calls were monitored.
The Jews outside Syria found out what was going on and decided
to take the matter into their own hands. Everyone went about it in their
own individual way. Michael Schelew, national chairman of the Syrian
Jewry Committee of B?nai Brith Canada?s Institute for International
Affairs and Paul Marcus, National Director of B?nai Birth Canada?s
Institute for International Affairs, wrote an article for the
Leader-Post, a newspaper printed in Regina. The article was entitle,
"The abuse of Jews a fact of life in Syria" and it exposed the truth
about what was really going on there. NAHON, an organization that
focuses mainly on social action and is made up exclusively of students,
distributed this article as well as many others at one of their
conventions, to promote awareness among students in Montreal. When
Syrian President Hafez Assad made a commitment to allow the Jews to
leave freely in 1992, he did not honor his promise. 73 senators wrote a