The New Republic · New York, New York · 23 November 1918
CP-1918-004
Zionism and Palestinian Natives
Correspondence: David Philipson, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Jacob De Haas
Transcribed from the clipping
David Philipson, of Cincinnati: “I fear the separatist nationalistic movement among Jews known as Zionism has led you to this conclusion.
But let me remind you that there are any number of Jews in the United States who have no conscious separatist solidarity other than a religious solidarity and a solidarity of sympathy with their suffering co-religionists abroad… This is our homeland.”
Under the heading “Zionism and Palestinian Natives,” Jacob De Haas answers, quoting the British declaration of November 2, 1917: “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country,” and the Zionists of America in convention at Pittsburgh, June 25, 1918: “First: We declare for political and civil equality irrespective of race, sex or faith, of all the inhabitants of the Land.”
Context added by this archive
An argument between Jewish Americans about Zionism, printed as correspondence three weeks after the Armistice. The first letter runs on from the previous page and carries no heading of its own; the heading recorded here is the one over the reply.
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"Zionism and Palestinian Natives," The New Republic, 23 November 1918, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1918-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1918-004
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