A new pro-Palestine paper, called the “Pro-Palestine Herald”, published by a non-Jewish organisation, has started publication in Chicago.
The paper states that it is “The Voice of Christian America in Behalf of the Jewish National Home”, and the organ of the Chicago Pro-Palestine Federation of America.
Explaining its purpose in a dedicatory note, the “Herald’s” editors declare that it will be devoted to securing an “honest rapprochement, loyal friendship and mutual esteem between Jew and Gentile, based upon a just appreciation of the historical problems of the Jewish people, now scattered among the nations of the earth”.
The Pro-Palestine Federation of America has four cardinal principles in its programme: 1. To promote and foster a spirit of mutual goodwill and esteem between Jews and non-Jews; 2. To combat antagonistic attacks made by reactionary and prejudiced Gentiles intent upon raising religious and racial issues to the detriment of American and human progress; 3. To promote a better understanding of the historical problems of the Jewish people among the Gentiles; 4. To assist in the defence of the Balfour Declaration and insist on the Palestine Mandate being carried out by the Mandatory Power in the letter and spirit.
The first issue of the paper discusses the meaning of Zionism, the relation of the Arabs to the Palestine Mandate, antisemitism in Europe, and similar questions.
The editors are Charles Edward Russell, George L. Scherzer, John Haynes Holmes, Fred B. Zimmerman and A. B. Elias.
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