Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to the Jews coming into the country and considering themselves equally Palestine nationals. This resentment is heightened by the fact that the Arabs, although owning most of the land, are poor; while the Jews seemingly have unlimited wealth behind them, which comes in from the officially recognized Zionist organization...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, debarked in Manhattan to spend three weeks in raising more money for the Zionist movement, the back-to-Palestine movement of the Jews...
...last four years, the Palestine Foundation Fund lias collected $7,204,439 to finance the movement, of which 60% has come from America. True, the Jews of America are the richest Jews in the world, but the Jews of America are far from united in support of the Zionist cause. Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, is a direct opponent. Other prominent Jews, such as Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, while favorable to the movement, have not approved of the policy of the Foundation Fund, believing that the movement should be financed by private initiative rather...
...growing tendency of the Jewish race to inter-marry with Christians is unfortunate," declared President Eliot in his address to the Harvard-Zionist Society yesterday in Phillips Brooks House...
President Eliot endorsed the Zionist movement and stated that he believed the Jews should have in Palestine at least one place where they can "put their backs against the wall and face all comers, if comers there be; a place where they can recover some of the qualities which they have lost during their long years of suffering in many lands. It will give them an opportunity to practice the muscular trades, such as agriculture and carpentry, from which the Jews have been excluded for centuries. What the Jews need is more healthy, strong, and stabilizing occupations...