Striking at the Palestine legislative council as an Arab weapon against the Jewish Homeland, Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America, today pledged the support of American Zionists to the Executive of the Jewish Agency in opposing immediate establishment of the council.
He warned in a statement of the danger “that the council by devious ways will circumvent its lack of jurisdiction and constitute a continuous threat to Jewish rights and Jewish progress in Palestine.”
He emphasized that the council plan “negates the very heart of the Mandate, that in their National Home Jews have not only individual rights but also the status of a People.”
“A Legislative Council,” Mr. Rothenberg asserted, “established on the present basis places the Jewish in the position of a minority…
He continued:
“My recent visit to Palestine convinced me that not only are the Jews in Palestine united in opposition to the Legislative Council, but that the vast majority of the Arab population are wholly indifferent to it. Those who favor it are mainly Arab leaders who
welcome the Legislative Council as an instrument of obstruction to the development of the Jewish National Home.
“Jews throughout the world must energetically resist the Legislative Council that has been established as utterly repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Mandate.”
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