Communist Organ Says Britain Will Raise Immigration Ban when India Troubles End

The difficulties which Great Britain is experiencing in India now are responsible for the stoppage of Jewish immigration to Palestine declares the “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party in an editorial commenting on the situation in Palestine.

Under the headline “A Maneouvre of British Imperialism in Palestine”, the “Pravda” analyzes the step banning immigration and says “it will soon be modified because the British imperialists will in the future more than once need Jewish aid in Palestine. As soon as the situation improves for them in Moslem countries they will see to it that Jewish immigration is immediately allowed in Palestine.”

The “Pravda” recalls a similar situation in 1921 after “the bloody events in Jaffa. Jewish immigration was then banned but later restored”. Terming the ban on Jewish immigration as “MacDonald’s donation to the Arab nationalists” the “Pravda” says “the Zionist leaders assisted Great Britain full heartedly in suppressing the national liberating movement in Palestine which is so necessary to protect the Suez Canal.

“They rejected the Arab offer to join ranks against the British intruders. Their extreme devotion to British imperialism resulted in bloody fights between Jewish workingmen and Arab peasants. Now as a remuneration for their faithful services these Zionist flunkies of British imperialism received a hard kick from their bosses which should serve as a lesson to the Jewish workers”.