Word: zionistic
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...Great Britain is guilty of the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
...British officials by natives which had reached anarchic proportions. Sir John Anderson is never quoted as uttering such homilies as Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope's often repeated dictum: "I am a good Christian and opposed to bloodshed." In case the Arabs rise, declared Palestine's leading Zionist newsorgan, "the Jews are prepared to shed their last drop of blood in a war waged for the defense of our last hopes...
...Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create in the Mediterranean another zone of expansion under British political and economic control, definitely contrary to the Italian Mediterranean spirit...
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation, announces the opening of competition for its Third Annual Palestine Work Fellowships. The awards provide for a year's stay in Palestine, chiefly in the collective settlements; first hand opportunity is also given for observing the new developments in Palestine and the workings of the Histadrut, or General Federation of Labor...
...fall of 1933 Meyer Weisgal, "a Zionist since his first shave" and one-time secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, sought out Director Reinhardt in Paris and proposed to produce in Manhattan a Biblical superspectacle "that would also constitute a stirring commentary on current events." It would provide a symbol of solidarity around which to rally world Jewry to the defense of fellow Jews suffering the lash of Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take...