Jewish Liberals in Reich Launch Campaign to Check Growing Zionist Sentiment

An organized campaign to discourage German-Jewish youths from going to Palestine has been launched by the Jewish liberal party in view of the growing Zionist sympathies of Jews throughout the Reich.

The Judische Liberale Zeitung, under the headline, “Storm Sign Over Palestine,” commenting on the abortive Arab demonstration in Jerusalem last Friday, for the first time since the advent of the Nazi regime, warns German Jews against going to Palestine.

The fact that the Palestine government took preventive measures against the demonstration should not make the Jews of Germany believe that Palestine is safe, the paper warns. It urges German Jewry not to put its hopes blindly in Palestine “because nothing will remain if this last hope is lost.”

The attack of the liberal party group is taken as a sign that a strong anti-Zionist front is again being organized in view of the increased Zionist activities in the country.

Publication of a series of articles in the Berlin Jewish community organ urging German Jews to remain aware of the fact that they are German under all circumstances, to the extent, even, of agreeing to a numerus clausus in the universities, except for those students about to graduate, has provoked strong Zionist dissatisfaction and resulted in the resignation of Dr. Moses from the directorate of the community. Dr. Moses declared such matters of policy belong solely to the representative body embracing almost all Jewish organizations in Germany, organized last month. Dr. Moses is vice-president of this group. He declared that the community, by its programmatic pronouncements, had broken the united front of German Jewry.