The Revisionist Party of South Africa was suspended today and threatened with expulsion from the Zionist Federation of the Union unless it calls off announced plans to launch a separate fund-raising campaign with the arrival here in August of Menahem Beigin, head of the Israel Herut Party.
The Revisionist plans have kicked up a rumpus in the Jewish community, with the local Jewish press carrying a variety of statements, charges and counter-accusations. The Board of Deputies of South African Jews, the Jewish board of education, the Zionist Federation and even Chief Rabbi Louis I. Rabinowitz of the United Hebrew Congregation have scored the Revisionist move. All have insisted on the necessity of a united campaign for both local Jewish work and Israel.
Joseph Daleski, chairman of the Revisionist Party, charged that the Jewish Agency discriminated against the Revisionists in Israel on matters of allocations. He asserted that the party had a right to conduct its own fund-raising campaign, and repudiated the right of the Zionist Federation to interfere.
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