Revisionists Score Zionist Executive in Call for Elections to Congress

The Revisionist fraction of the Actions Committee of the Zionist Organization, fifteen in number, have issued a statement criticizing the Executive of the Organization, as “we are on the point of entering the year of the Congress.”

“Simultaneously,” it proceeds, “we are confronted with the necessity for timely mobilization of our forces, so that the elections to the coming Congress may demonstrate a further and tremendous growth of Revisionism through a vast increase in our voting power! The activity for the upbuilding of the Jewish State on both sides of the Jordan must be proceeded with in all countries, in all fields and spheres of Jewish life.”

The last meeting of the Actions Committee, it says, decided to recognize the separate Union of Zionist Revisionists, and thereby clarified the position of the Revisionist shekel-payers within the Zionist Organization. The constant attempts of our opponents to upset this decision are bound to fail.

The Revisionist influence upon the Zionist Organization, it goes on, has not been without result. At the seventeenth Congress the Zionist Organization was freed from that personal regime which represented the defeatist course in Zionism; the Left parties in Zionism who, for many years, supported that old and erroneous policy, were forced back on the defensive at Basle. The claims of the Left to retain there economic dictatorship in Zionism to the disadvantage of the Jewish middle-class and the non-Socialist Chalutzim were repulsed. The Jewish State resolution and our struggle for the definition of the Zionist aims which we tabled at the last Congress, compelled Zionist public opinion to recognize the true content of political Zionism and to oppose the liquidatory tendencies of Zionist leading circles.

It is not sufficient, however, to bring about the complete change of the policy and practice the movement hitherto pursued. The Zionist Executive elected at Basle has not gathered the courage necessary to free itself from the old course. As before, the Executive lacks every initiative, every constructive idea, and thus the reforms inaugurated at Basle have not yet produced any tangible result, the statement asserts.

The fifteenth anniversary of Temple Beth Israel of Albany Park, Chicago, was celebrated with a dinner. Prof. A. L. Sachar of the University of Illinois, was the speaker of the evening. The proceeds of the $15 dinner went towards the maintenance of the temple’s educational enterprises. Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn is spiritual leader of the congregation.