Coincident with the holding of the Zionist Congress in Switzerland, the attacks against Zionism in Soviet Russia have become intensified.
A group of Communist Jewish peasants in White Russia issued a proclamation addressed to the “Jewish peasants of Palestine,” declaring they are being utilized by the Zionist agents of British imperialism in order to suppress the Arab peasants. “Standing on the shoulders of the Palestinian Jewish peasants, the bloodthirsty British lion pursues his colonial policy to enslave the Arabs,” the proclamation declares.
The “Emes,” Communist Yiddish daily, also attacks the Zionist movement and draws a comparison between Jewish colonization in Russia and in Palestine. Whereas Jewish colonization in Palestine is created to counteract the Arabs, states the “Emes,’ the Jewish colonization in Russia serves as a bridge for internationalism and cooperation among the nations.
Every Jewish colony in Palestine is only another trench in the war between the Jews and the Arabs. Every new Jewish position in Russia serves the international brotherhood, it says.
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