Establishment of a Palestine Jewish commonwealth after the war was demanded last night by the Zionist Organization of Canada in a resolution adopted at the close of its 26th national convention. A.J. Freiman, of Ottawa, was elected president for his 23rd year.
In other resolutions the convention declared “the greatest and most urgent task of our times is to crush the menace of the Axis powers,” deplored the Palestine administration’s implementation of the White Paper, condemned all territorial schemes for colonization of Jewish masses and asked the opportunity for the raising of a Jewish army in Palestine and the diaspora.
A resolution said: “The principal task of the Zionist Organization of Canada during the coming years will be… to assist in procuring at the termination of the war…equal individual and group rights for Jews in all countries where they reside and eradication of all racial, religious and national discrimination in any form…The establishment of Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth within the British Commonwealth of Nations.”
Other officers elected are Samuel E. Schwisberg, Montreal, R.J. Kimmel, Winnipeg, and Dr. Isidore Goldstick, London, Ont., vice-presidents; Joseph Fineberg, Montreal, treasurer.
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