Revisionist Petitions Hit British Policy, Fight Administration

The Revisionist, right wing Zionist; petition movement against the Palestine policy of Great Britain has assumed the form of four separate petitions issued today and all supporters will be asked to sign one of the four.

One petition is addressed to King George of England; a second to the head of all nations; a third to the British parliament, and the fourth to other parliaments. In addition there will be a separate petition, which will be submitted by the Jews of Palestine. A copy of the petition and the report on the results achieved will be handed to the League of Nations at its. May session, when the entire movement will conclude.

Supporters of the petition movement will be asked to end the collections of signatures in March. Later initiators of the movement plan to hold a series of ten thousand mass meetings all over the world. Regional conferences will also be held at which suitable resolutions will be adopted and the signed petitions formally transmitted to the English parliament.

PRESENT POLICY “FATAL”

The first two petitions will be known as individual petitions and all signers will ask for admission to Palestine. The other two will be signed by all supporters collectively and will describe the practices of the Palestine administration versus the Palestine Mandate and the Balfour Declaration promises, dwelling chiefly on the present day immigration policy of the Palestine government as fatal to Zionist hopes.

The British policy in Palestine has recently proved itself capable of assuming the character of raids and expulsions and converting the Jewish national home into a country where the dignity of Jewish settlers suffered intolerable humiliation, the petition states, demanding. “national statehood” for the Jews and free Palestine immigration, regulated and controlled by Jewish institutions. A lengthy memorandum will be attached to the collective petitions describing the essence of the Palestine Mandate; The Jewish position in the Diaspora; The importance of immigration for the Jewish workers; The economic absorptive capacity of Palestine; The tourist persecutions; The general anti-Mandate character of the present Palestine regime; The land policy of the Palestine government; The blocking of Jewish settlement in the Transjordan; Public security, and the interests of the Arab nation.

It is argued that the present policy in Palestine robs the Jewish people of the hope of transforming Palestine into a Jewish state and is not justified even from the viewpoint of the national interests of the Arabs themselves. Appended to the petition is also a plan for the complete reform of the Palestine administration on the basis of the Revisionist program, which includes the appointment of a High Commissioner and departmental heads only after consultation with the Zion representatives and also the creation of a legislative council only after an understanding has been mached between the Arabs and the Jews.