Zionist Manifesto Calls on All Jews to Rally to Israel’s Cause

A call to Zionist and Jewish communities throughout the world to “take their stand beside the embattled “State of Israel,” was voiced in a manifesto issued here at the close of the meeting of the Small Actions Committee, policy making body of the Zionist movement between world congresses.

The document expressed the gratification of Zionist movement at the “readiness with which leaders of Jewish communities in many lands had responded to Israel’s need for political aid and by the outburst of generosity with which Jews everywhere met Israel’s new and overwhelming financial needs.”

Elsewhere, the document defined security and peace with the Arab states as “Israel’s political aims and needs” and urged the Jewish people and its friends to concentrate their activities on the attainment of these aims. It welcomed the tens of thousands of immigrants who “continue to stream-to Israel from new and old centers of dispersion” and pledged all possible efforts to rescue them and settle them firmly in Israel.

The Zionist manifesto blasted the Egyptian Government’s “attempt to emulate the Nazis in the savage persecution of Jewish residents and citizens of Egypt.” The Actions Committee urged “lovers of freedom throughout the world to use their best offices to restrain these criminal acts born of anti-Semitism and racialism.”