Zionist Organisation and the Revisionists: Official Zionist Executive Statement Utters Warning Again

The unity of the Zionist Organisation, based on national solidarity, and its position within the Jewish people and in the external world, built up by more than thirty years of persistent effort, must be protected against disruptive tendencies, the Executive of the Zionist Organisation says in a statement issued here to-day on the resolutions adopted at the Calais meeting of the Revisionist World Union.

Conscious of their responsibility for the preservation of this unity, the statement proceeds, the Executive of the Zionist Organisation, while disclaiming any intention of suppressing opposing views within the Organisation, find themselves compelled to utter the warning that the Zionist Organisation will combat with every means at its command the invasion of anarchy into the spheres of organisation and politics.

The Executive regard it as their duty to point out the consequences which would have to follow upon the realisation of the Calais resolutions. They reserve the right to take such action as will appear necessary, and to submit proposals to the General Council with a view to protecting the unity and integrity of the Zionist Organisation against all attacks.

Membership of the Zionist Organisation involves compliance with its rules and decisions, the statement says, and is incompatible with membership of an outside body requiring acceptance of a discipline which may conflict with and take precedence over the duty of allegiance to the Zionist Organisation.

In regard to external political action, the Zionist Organisation adheres to the principle that separate negotiations with Governments and the League of Nations may be conducted by Zionist individuals or groups only with the consent of the Executive, and that in specific cases, where desired by the Executive, external political activities of other character may also not be undertaken without previous consultation with them. The responsible Executive elected by the majority of Congress are always prepared to grant to individual Zionist groups a certain latitude in regard to political activities as far as this is compatible with the general interest; they must, however, reserve the right to guard vital interests of the Jewish people from being jeopardized by deliberate disregard of these principles.