American Council for Judaism Calls Israel Foreign State to American Jews

The American Council for Judaism declared today that Israel is a foreign state to Americans of Jewish faith and is not the state or homeland of the Jewish people. It expressed the hope that the Zionist movement and the Provisional Government of Israel would make clear the complete severance-political and national–of Jews who are citizens of other nations, from the new state in Palestine.

“Israel can in no way represent those of Jewish faith who are citizens of other nations,” the Council added in a formal statement authorized by the executive committee headed by Leasing J, Rosenwald, president. “It cannot bestow rights upon them or exact obligations from them, “American citizens have no right to participate in the political life of Israel except through the proper agencies and procedures of the government of the United States,” the statement asserted.