“friends of Palestine Arabs” Conducting Anti-zionist Campaign in United States

The “Friends of Palestine Arabs” an organization of American Arabs devoted to anti-Zionist propaganda in this country, has recently been organized in New York City, according to information received by the Jewish Daily Bulletin. The organization has its headquarters in the offices of Selim Totah, a lawyer and an American of Syrian extraction, in the Woolworth Building.

Lectures are now being given free under the auspices of the organization in Young Men’s and Women’s Christian Associations, clubs, colleges and Foreign Policy Associations by Arab speakers. Ameen Rihani, a well-known Arab writer, is one of the society’s lecturers now touring the country. The society also reprints articles from American magazines which favor the Arab side in Palestine.

Several debates between Arab propagandists and Zionist leaders have taken place in this country during the past few months since the August outbreaks in Palestine, in some of which the British side is also presented. One of the recent three-sided discussions was held before the Foreign Policy Association of Philadelphia, during which Prof. A. E. Prince, of Queens University, Canada, justified the course pursued by Great Britain in Palestine and pleaded for the annulment of the Balfour Declaration.

The “Friends of Palestine Arabs” recently reprinted an anti-Zionist article, “Whose ‘Home’ Is Palestine?”, from the “Christian Century.”

Among the written propaganda that the “Friends of Palestine Arabs” have recently sent out are an article from the “New York Times” Jerusalem correspondent and one from the New York liberal weekly, “The Nation.”