The “League for Peace with Justice in Palestine,” which has been placing full-page advertisements in the newspapers opposing the recommendation of the Anglo-American inquiry committee that 100,000 Jews be admitted to Palestine, was exposed today by the American Jewish Committee as a front for the Institute of Arab American Affairs.
Committee investigators uncovered the fact that Benjamin H. Freedman, the so called representative of persons of the Jewish faith in the League, was a “one – man organization,” representing no one but himself. The representative of “persons of the Christian faith,” P.M. Schoendorf, is Freedman’s mother-in-law, while the representative of the Arabs, Habib I.Katiban, is connected with the Institute of Arab American Affairs and has collaborated with anti-Semitic groups.
The Committee says that Freedman has admitted he is working in close cooperation with the Arab Institute and with the Arab Office in Washington. He also is reported to have stated that he helped prepare a memorandum submitted to the State Department by the Arab Office, opposing the Anglo-American report, and accompanied the delegation which presented the memorandum to Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
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