The House of Commons will be asked to send a special parliamentary commission of inquiry to Jerusalem to survey and report on the questions involved in the controversy between the Jews and Moslems in Palesting over the Western Wall of the Temple, commonly known as the Wailing Wall. A recommendation to this effect was adopted at an all-Palestine Jewish conference held here today under the chairmanship of Dr. Joseph Klausner, author of “Jesus of Nazareth,” and professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Group and party differences of the various sections of the Jewish population in Palestine were forgotten and various committees formed by Jews for the protection of their right of access to the Wailing Wall were represented at the conference. Even the ultra-Orthodox group of Jerusalem, which is at logger-heads with the secular Zionists, joined in this action.
An executive committee was chosen and charged with the task of issuing appeals to the nations of the world and to Jewry throughout the world, setting forth the danger threatening the right of the Jews to worship before the remnant of the Temple, a privilege undisputed since the time of the Roman emperors. A fund to finance this action will be raised. The committee is also to take under advisement a proposal to send a special delegation of Palestine Jews to London.
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