“The Arabs and their few reactionary anti-Semitic friends have miscalculated the impression their peculiar propaganda would have upon fair-minded Englishmen,” declared Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America, upon his return last Tuesday from London, where he had been called for a series of conferences of the World Zionist Executive of which he is a member. “Their sweeping claims to an immense Arabic Empire, which they would have no means to maintain and for which there is no effective, unified support even among the Arabs; their distorted allegations of injustice done to them in Palestine, bolstered up as they are by half-truths and shameless prevarications; their threats of violence and the arousing of the Islamic world; their utter disregard of the facts so far as the economic development of Palestine is concerned—have produced a strong reaction against their so-called claims, and a better understanding of the peaceful and cooperative spirit which has in fact animated the Jewish world in the sacrifices it has made for the redemption of Palestine.
“Even so prejudiced an organ as the London ‘Daily Mail’ now admits that the leaders of the Palestine Arabs fear most not the political ‘oppression’ of the Jews, which is the keynote of their Western propaganda, but the economic development of Palestine for which Jews are responsible and which threatens the supremacy of the Arab Effendis who for generations have kept the fellaheen in economic subjection. When Parliament will consider in March the report of the Inquiry Commission whose labors in Palestine came to an end last week, it will find a more truly representative British public opinion organized to defend the honor of the British Empire which is involved in the undertaking to assume under the mandate responsibility for the establishment of the Jewish National Home with all due regard for the legitimate rights of all the inhabitants of the land.”
With regard to Dr. Magnes’s recent utterances about peace between Jews and Arabs, Mr. Lipsky said:
“Without touching upon the wrong done by Dr. Magnes toward the Jews of Palestine and the Zionist Organization by making it appear as if they were animated by ill will toward Arab interests and that he alone was free from prejudice and filled with good feeling toward the Arabs, I am in a
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