The attitude taken by the Jewish Communists in the present Palestine situation has had wide repercussions in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
At a protest meeting held in Minsk, called by the Jewish Communists, which 500 attended, a fight occurred between the Communists and the Zionists.
One of the Communist speakers started to blame the Zionists, the government of Great Britain and the Labor party. The audience listened patiently to these arguments, but when the speaker took a pro-Arab attitude, a number of those present became so enraged that they rushed forward to the platform, seeking to attack the speaker. Since the Communists were in the majority, they ejected the opposition from the hall. The meeting then adopted a resolution condemning the Zionists, the British Government, and the Second International.
“Emes,” the Yiddish Communist daily, continuing its campaign against Zionism, declares today: “Zionism was born on pogroms, existed on pogroms, and now has died on pogroms. Undoubtedly the Arabs, being in the majority in Palestine, have the sole right to Palestine.”
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