The Soviet Novosti Press Agency has released from Moscow a vicious attack on the Zionist movement throughout the world, calling it “a dangerous weapon of the imperialist West” and comparing it with the Mafia and Cosa Nostra gangster organizations.
According to reports received here, Novosti denounced Zionism as a world-ring operating in 60 countries and dealing in everything “from religion to espionage.” The article alleged that Zionism was organized by Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Rothschild bankers, and others “to detach Jewish workers from the international labor movement and to perpetuate the rule of property owners.” It alleged that Zionism collaborated with Ukrainian anti-Semitism “and, in 1936, when Zionists actively cooperated with the Nazi chieftains, they organized the World Jewish Congress whose president today still is Dr. Nahum Goldmann.”
(From London, it was reported today that Soviet newspapers reprinted Novosti’s bitter attack on Zionism very widely. Novosti is a Soviet feature agency which, customarily, serves only the foreign press with its Soviet propaganda.)
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