Nothing of recent times has so thoroughly stirred Australian Jewry as has the controversy over the incident at the Wailing Wall which still agitates the community. The issue has developed from a mere difference of opinion to a storm of the first magnitude. Today, on the face of things it has become a struggle between the Zionist and non-Zionist forces. But there has been so much misunderstanding, so much want of tact, so much of personal spite, that at the moment a non-partisan onlooker would find difficulty in deciding what the dispute was all about.
The community is beginning to feel that there are issues other than those which appear on the surface. The Zionists accuse their opponents of being cowardly and un-Jewish since they declined to agree to a resolution deploring the Wailing Wall incident on the score that their action might be construed as a reflection on British justice. The non-Zionists repudiate the charge. The resolution that they were asked to agree to, so they claim and the facts seem to support them, “protested most emphatically against the actions of HIs Majesty’s Government in Palestine,” whereas the resolution ultimately adopted was worded very differently. Had they been asked to cooperate on the basis of the resolution in its final form, they would have been
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