The Jewish Constituent Assembly of Palestine, meeting here today for the first time in nine years, issued a manifesto to the democratic nations of the world, urging them to give shelter to Jews “escaping from the sword of Hitler, and struggling between life and death on see, on land, in the hills and in the woods.”
“For years,” the manifesto says, “Hitler shed our blood and trampled Israel’s honor. But humanity remained unmoved and did not intervene until Hitler lifted his sword against every nation and brought the world to the brink of an abyss.” It tells of the “tens of thousands of Jewish men and women who have enlisted in the holy war” in the ranks of the British, American, Polish and other armies, and of the fight for their lives which the Jews are carrying on in the Nazi-occupied countries.
Emphasizing that the Nazi-persecuted Jewish communities in Europe “wear the yellow badge with pride, hoping that the day is not far when the Hitler regime will be destroyed,” the manifesto concludes with an appeal to the freedom-loving nations “not to keep silent at the shedding of our blood and not to avert their eyes from our human rights.”
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