The Jewish Bulletin · 15 August 1919

CP-1919-011

Jews and Anti-Zionists

Reprinted from the Portland Tribune

Transcribed from the clipping

“Our inimical friends, the anti-Zionists, striving to strengthen their opposition to Zionism, besides accusing the Zionists of treachery to the countries of which they are citizens—a most vicious falsehood—they quote some Gentile writers who happen to sound anti-Zionistic sentiment. One of these self-appointed keepers of Israel in his weekly or weekly, after re-stating his anti-Zionistic position and assuring his readers that Zionism has lost out because of its misinterpretation of the Balfour Declaration, quotes Dr. William T. Ellis, special correspondent of the New York Herald in Damascus, who, among other things, said, also: ‘It is simply impossible to turn Palestine over to the Jews without precipitating a great massacre,’ and that the natives object to an English mandate in Palestine… To them every anti-Semite becomes a renowned authority, so long as he promotes anti-Zionism.”

Context added by this archive

A warning printed in 1919 and quoted in order to dismiss it. The argument that opposing Zionism amounts to antisemitism is already fully formed here, twenty-five years before the Baltimore Sun reported it from a convention platform.

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"Jews and Anti-Zionists," The Jewish Bulletin, 15 August 1919. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1919-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1919-011

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