In almost every synagogue and temple in the United States, and in hundreds of churches as well, in every Jewish center and forum, protests were made over Saturday and Sunday against the British anti-Jewish policy in Palestine. Plans for protest demonstrations on Nov. 2, the thirteenth anniversary of the Balfour declaration, indicate that there may be over a thousand meetings of demonstration on that day. Instructions for the demonstrations were issued by Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Emanuel Neumann, who head an emergency committee for the Zionist Organization of America.
The Good-Will Union at the same time issued a call to Christian ministers of all denominations urging them to preach sermons on the Palestinian question on Nov. 2.
EFFORT OF JEWS
“For a decade, now, all men have been watching with admiration the heroic effort which the Jews of the world, and especially of America, have been making to rebuild the Holy Land. Through courage, patience, and self-sacrifice they have wrought wonders, helping to restore the land to the glory which it had in the days of antiquity,” says the Good-Will Union. “The Good-Will Union expresses the hope that the traditional good faith and sense of fair play and justice of the British people will not permit any action which will reflect upon international good-will.”
A monster demonstration of protest, at which all Jewish organizations will take part, is being organized for Nov. 2, it was announced. The Brooklyn Jewish Committee, at the instance of Rabbi Louis D. Gross, announces a similar mass-meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the same evening. From Detroit, Mich., comes the announcement of plans for a “monster mass meeting” at which close to 200 Jewish organizations, congregations, and fraternal orders will take part.
In a meeting of the Cleveland Zionist District held on Friday, a resolution was taken urging Justice Louis C. Brandeis to assume leadership of the Zionist movement in the United States. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, vice-president of the American Zionist Organization, urged the leadership of Brandeis, and issued a long statement tracing the history of Zionist effort in Palestine, and appealing to the “conscience of the world” for justice against “Caesar.”
BRITAIN HAS FAILED THE JEW
The same appeal was made by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, preaching at the Institutional Synagogue on Saturday. “Great Britain has failed the Jew. Will the world fail the Jew? England finds it uncomfortable to keep her word to the Jewish people in view of her pressing problems with India and Egypt. We must now look to the League of Nations.”
The Woman’s League of the United Synagogue of America, in a statement affirmed their “confidence that the Jewish Agency will courageously meet this appalling situation.”
Henrietta Szold, woman Zionist leader just returning from Palestine, asserted that the “settlers will keep on with their work no matter what happens.”
The Zionist Labor Party, Hitachdut of America, challenged “the enlightened opinion of the world to produce another such example of just and peaceful colonization as we pursued in Palestine all these years.”
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