British Minister of State for Industry, MP Gerald Kaufman, urged Socialist Zionists to take the information offensive in an address to the local branch meeting of Poale Zion, the Labor Zionist movement. Kaufman, who is a member of a well-known Leeds Jewish family whose sisters are active in Pioneer Women, has not made many public speeches of this kind since he joined the Wilson government two years ago. Kaufman expressed concern that Israel’s enemies were exploiting the military image built up by Zionist spokesmen over recent years. He urged the Zionists to start talking about the achievements a Socialism in Israel and the upbuilding of a new nation in the wilderness. The Minister warned that the Arabs were seeking to spread anti-Semitism under the guise of anti-Zionism.
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