Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jews and Arabs both knew that the Zionist outlaws were hitting at Britain's pro-Arab policy. The British knew it, too, but their first concern was to hold their place in the oil-rich, strategically important Arab world of the Middle East. Tensely all factions awaited a crucial decision: whether the British, Mr. Roosevelt's implied promise notwithstanding (TIME, March 20), would soon stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, as provided in the famed White Paper...
...Hagana is Hebrew for "Defense," the title assumed by illegally armed Zionist extremists who believe in "direct action" to further a Jewish homeland...
Reaction came thick & fast: rabbinical students at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion voiced "strongest indignation." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's pro-Zionist monthly Opinion called the principles "nothing less than unbelievable . . . treasonable to the household of Israel." The Congress Weekly, organ of the pro-Zionist American Jewish Congress, accused the Houston congregation of composing "a set of 'Nürnberg laws' of their...
...simple and ugly: he sought to whip up anti-Semitism in strongly Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...
Died. Judge Julian William Mack, 77, pioneer Zionist leader, veteran U.S. Circuit Court jurist (1911-41); in Manhattan. Chairman of the first American Jewish Congress (1918-19), he headed the Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. Under his questioning as a member of World War I's Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors, Alvin York dropped his objections...