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Revisionists, Mizrachi Scored by Fishman at Zionist Parley

July 3, 1934
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Discussion on Zionist policy at the annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America continued this afternoon. It was featured by a bitter speech against the Revisionists and Mizrachi by Jacob Fishman, who demanded that General Zionists back up the labor movement in Palestine.

“In my view the only position a true Zionist can take is to back up the labor movement in Palestine when it is so unjustly and unscrupulously attacked,” Fishman declared.

“What they have done, and what it is gives meaning to Zionism, gives hope to tens of thousands of Jews who must come to Palestine to build the Jewish Homeland on a national cooperative basis.”

Calling Revisionist methods “too foul to recount,” Fishman detailed their bombings and assaults on Zionist leaders, the wrecking of Zionist headquarters and aggres-

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