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

Transcribed from the clipping

Standfirst as printed: “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.” Three photographs run beneath it, captioned Jaffa, Jerusalem and Haifa.

Context added by this archive

The paper prints the demand as “Palestine For Palestinians” in 1919, and calls the project “Jewish Colonization” in its own subheading.

Cite this item

"Is "Zionism" A Menace to World Peace?," Deseret News, 12 July 1919. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1919-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1919-005

Elsewhere in the archive

Buying Up the LandDeseret News · 12 July 1919 · the same newspaper
The colonies would be welcomed were they not forerunners of a planned waveDeseret News · 12 July 1919 · the same newspaper
Interview with leaders of the Mohammedan-Christian societyDeseret News · 12 July 1919 · the same newspaper
Arabs Fear Zionists Menace in PalestineOmaha World-Herald · 17 March 1919 · the same year
Arabs in Holy Land Fear Jews; Say Zionism MenaceThe Buffalo News · 19 March 1919 · the same year
Arabs Violently Opposed to ZionismOmaha World-Herald · 1 June 1919 · the same year

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