An anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist harangue at a provincial convention here of the Social Credit movement has embarrassed party leaders and drawn criticism from the local press.
Percy Young a delegate from Dawson Creek to the British Columbia party parley, characterized the Zionists as “people who call themselves Jews, but are really Russians from Outer Mongolia who went to Israel in 952 B.C. Zionism.” he continued, “has completely destroyed Christianity.” He expressed a fear that Zionism would “destroy Social Credit, too.”
Later, Young told a reporter that Zionism controlled Communism, Nazism, Socialism, labor unions banks, the press and radio–“everything in fact except Social Credit.”
The Victoria Daily Colonist called on Social Credit Premier Bennett of British Columbia to disavow Young. The Western Jewish Bulletin joined the call, pointing out that in Alberta the party had expelled members who had spoken in a similar vein.
Solon P. Law, national leader of the Social Credit Party, meanwhile, sharply repudiated Young and in a statement to Canadian Press, declaring that the British Columbia delegate “was not expressing the views of the Social Credit Association of Canada, and I wish most strongly to disassociate our movement from the references he made to Zionism and to Jews.”
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