The anti-Zionist crusade of most sections of the British press is encouraging anti-Semitism in Britain “directly and indirectly” the British Zionist Federation charged today in its official organ, the Zionist Review.
The publication also stressed that the “biased attitude of the British Broadcasting Company and the bulk of the British press is one of the greatest difficulties facing the Zionist movement in Britain today.”
The New Statesman and Nation in an editorial today sharply criticized Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin’s policies in Palestine. Recalling Bevin’s statement at Bournemouth recently that the admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine would require an extra division of troops in the country, the magazine points out that there are now five fully-manned divisions, 15,000 policemen, Transjordan Frontier Forces and R.A.F. and naval units in Palestine whose job is to check a few thousand terrorists and hold down 600,000 citizens.
The article added that it has taken Bevin a year to realize that President Truman could not be induced to back a policy which was opposed by even the most moderate Zionists. Last August, the publication added, partition could have been carried out even with half of the present British forces in Palestine, but now “federalization,” even if it were accepted by the Arabs and Jews, would retain all the odious features of the present police state.
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