The Zionist Review, organ of the British Zionist Federation, today editorially condemned Pinchas Rutenberg’s plan for Palestine Jewish unity through abandonment of the party system as leading not towards unity but regimental uniformity.
The net effect of Rutenberg’s statement, the editorial said, is to strengthen the forces which in the past have disturbed Jewish unity. Rutenberg performed no service to the community by launching an irrational attack on the Histadruth and an unreasoned tirade against political parties, the paper asserted.
The Review urged for the Yishub the kind of cooperation worked out among parties in Britain, but said difficulties lay in the agglomeration of small parties of the right founded for the most part by “elements yearning for the limelight and power, against which stands the labor movement, which has made a solid contribution to Palestine and occupies a commanding position built up by democratic means.”
The editorial said Rutenberg’s request that labor abdicate would not be regarded as fair to the vast labor element.
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