The Labor Zionist Organization of America today issued a statement in which it denied the right of the American Zionist Council, representative body of the Zionist movement in the United States; to criticize its endorsement of Governor Adlai E. Stevenson for President.
“We deny specifically and generally the right of the Council to consider or to act upon this matter,” the statement said. “By tradition, by its whole principle of organization, and upon many occasions of the past, it has been the declared policy and practice of the Labor Zionist Organization of America to take part in, and to make declarations concerning, issues and candidates in American elections.
“This derives from the fact that we are not only a Zionist party; we are also a Labor party. And we have always regarded not only as our right but as our duty to second our advocacy of social justice in Israel with a similar stand and similar action in the United States. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the American Zionist Council. In regard to matters affecting Zionist policy we go along with other groups in relation to declared policies, in majority opinions,” the statement pointed out.
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