Two prominent Zionist leaders here–Dr. Israel Goldstein, a member of the Jewish Agency executive, and Yaacov Tsur, president of the Jewish National Fund–today challenged Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, on his call for the dissolution of the World Zionist Organization.
In a letter to Dr. Prinz, made public here by Dr. Goldstein, the latter stated: “For the President of an American Jewish organization, which has been pro-Zionist all these years and which is a part of the World Jewish Congress, whose president (Dr. Nahum Goldmann) is president of the World Zionist Organization, to cut the ground out from under the Zionist organization, is indeed a strange state of affairs. ” Dr. Goldstein is himself a former president of the American Jewish Congress. Mr. Tsur criticized Dr. Prinz in a public address.
(Issue with Dr. Prinz was also taken by Louis Segal, American Labor Zionist leader and member of the Jewish Agency executive, at a meeting last night of the executive committee of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order, of which Mr. Segal is secretary-general. The Labor Zionist Organization of America adopted a resolution demanding that the American Jewish Congress disassociate itself from the views on the Zionist movement expressed by Dr. Prinz, its president.)
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