Deseret Evening News · Salt Lake City, Utah · 12 July 1919
CP-1919-005
Is "Zionism" A Menace to World Peace?
Deseret News Foreign Correspondent Describes Bitter Resentment of Jewish Colonization by Natives Whose Demand Is, “Palestine For Palestinians”—Moslems and Christians For Once United, Say They Will Fight to the Death Rather Than Give Up Their Country to the Jews—“Zionist” Methods Resented, Especially Lavish Use of Money, by Which Agents Buy Best Land at High Prices—Strained Feeling Among Arabs and Other Natives Who Declare They Are Being Sold Out by Allies Without Their Consent—Demand For American or British Protectorate.
Transcribed from the clipping
The masthead reads: “DESERET EVENING NEWS. FOREIGN NEWS, SOCIETY NEWS. MUSIC, THE DRAMA, AND LITERATURE. SECTION THREE. SATURDAY JULY 12 1919 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH.” The banner: “Is ‘Zionism’ A Menace to World Peace?”
Context added by this archive
The whole argument is in the standfirst, in 1919, including the demand as the correspondent heard it: Palestine for Palestinians. The masthead prints the date.
Cite this clipping
"Is "Zionism" A Menace to World Peace?," Deseret Evening News, 12 July 1919, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1919-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1919-005
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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