A resolution calling upon the Jewish Agency to enlarge upon the economic development of Palestine in order that Jewish immigration may be increased and one condemning Dr. Magnes’s stand on the Palestine question as harmful to Jewry, were adopted by delegates from city and town in Ohio attending the state Zionist Conference which opened here Sunday.
The conference was called by Isaac Carmel, manager of the Zionist Roll Call campaign in Ohio. City Manager W. R. Hopkins, Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, and Rabbi James G. Heller, chairman of the National Zionist Executive Committee, addressed the delegates.
Speaking of Dr. Magnes, Rabbi Heller said that while Dr. Magnes wants peace with the Arabs the Zionists want more than peace, but before peace can be established justice and righteousness must be done to the Jewish people. “Peace is also possible with the Arab people but not with the effendis.” He demanded that England put officials in Palestine who shall be guided by the spirit of the Mandate. Rabbi Brickner declared that “our answer to the Arabs must be Jewish unity and strength.”
Other resolutions adopted approved the plans for the formation of the Palestine Economic Corporation under the leadership of Justice Brandeis and Felix Warburg and recognized the Zionist Roll Call as a demonstration of the unchanged and firm attitude of the Jewish people in America towards the Zionist program and policy in Palestine and resolved to work for the success of the Roll Call.
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