Word: zionism
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Birobidjan was the latest move in Russia's drive for influence among the Arabs of the Middle east. In UNO Russia had stood behind Arab Syria and Lebanon in their dispute with France and Great Britain. Now Russia was reminding the Arab world that she did not support Zionism, in fact already had a substitute Zion. In Palestine, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, stated unequivocally: "It is perfectly useless to offer the Jews a substitute for Palestine...
When Jamal al Husseini alighted at the Damascus Gate, cheering Arab crowds pelted him with flowers. A firebrand of Arab anti-Zionism had come home from eight years of exile. Whirling dervishes and fierce-looking Arabs on prancing horses escorted him through the city. Jamal looked older, graver, but seemed to have lost none of his flaming nationalism. The British had brought him back on the eve of the Arab-Jewish showdown. Gratefully, the Arabs welcomed Jamal. Within a few hours of his homecoming the chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, cousin of the still-exiled Grand Mufti, was deep...
Died. The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, 73, Slovakia-born, U.S.-educated, since 1913 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire's United Hebrew Congregations, pillar of orthodoxy and Zionism (a forest in Galilee was named for him); in London...
...turn the false sentimentalism which surrounds Zionism to a practical sentimentalism and make homes for the refugee Jews in our own communities rather than insist that the Arabs of Palestine give their country entirely over to a people who once happened to rule it for a few centuries...
Many a U.S. Jew fears that Zionism appears to split his allegiance to the U.S. by committing him to a sentimental allegiance to Palestine. Many a Jew resents any thought of divided allegiance, believes it gives anti-Semites a talking point...