Jewish leaders and organizations in Palestine are urged to abstain from any participation in the inquiry conducted by Sir John Simpson, who has been commissioned by the British government to investigate problems of land settlement, immigration and development in Palestine, by the executive of the Zionist Revisionist party (opposition within the Zionist movement) today in a communication to the Jewish National Council.
That Jews should not take part in any inquiry except on the basis of the international obligation of the establishing of the Jewish National Home which Great Britain assumed when it accepted the Mandate, is the position taken by the Revisionist Party. By abstaining from Sir John’s inquiry the Jews would make clear that his mission is opposed to the Jewish National Home, the Revisionists point out.
Under the present circumstances, the Revisionists, say “Jews must regard Sir John Simpson apprehensively though not bearing any malice to him personally, because under other conditions he would have been received enthusiastically”.
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