Palestine Policy Assailed by Jews

Charge Failure to Observe Terms of Mandate, in Heated Session Here.

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“Declarations of indignation against the British government in firey oratory by Jewish leaders and in a resolution charging failure to observe the terms of the mandate calling for the establishment of a national Jewish home in Palestine, featured the final session of the American Jewish Congress, which was thrown into an uproar in the Willard Hotel late yesterday.

The resolution charging violation of the terms of the mandate was introduced at the session late yesterday.

The adoption of the resolution charging violation of the mandate was the outgrowth of the receipt of news dispatches from London yesterday afternoon in which recommendations were made in an official report to the British government by Sir John Hope Simpson that immigration to Palestine be suspended until a census is taken.

The Simpson report criticized methods hitherto pursued by Jewish agencies with regard to colonization and immigration to Palestine, and dwelt on land settlements there. The Simpson report was made simultaneously with the British government’s statement of its future policy in Palestine, a statement based largely on Sir John’s report.

The introductory part of the resolution declared that the Jews of America ‘organized a Jewish Legion which fought under Gen.

Allenby and aided in the freeing of Palestine from the yoke of Turkish oppression, and, continuing in the belief that the British government was resolved to adhere to the policy to which it was pledged, they thereafter co-operated with the Jews of other countries in the construction upbuilding of the land by contributing men and money for the establishment of economic, social and cultural institutions in Palestine.’

The resolution was introduced by Louis Lipsky, chairman of the committee which prepared it, who severely criticized the action of the British government. Baruch Zuckerman, leader of the Socialist Zionist movement, speaking in Yiddish, brought many in the audience to their feet with terms of fiery oratory.

Jacob De Haas, chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Zionist organization, declared, ‘this is the saddest hour we have faced,’ in referring to alleged failure of the British to carry out the terms of the mandate… The congress also adopted resolutions urging the Rumanian government to take steps to avoid anti-Jewish riots in that country and expressing ‘deep concern’ over anti-Semitic outbreaks in Germany.”

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Washington, October 1930: the Hope Simpson report reaching American readers through the anger it caused at a convention in the Willard Hotel. The paper uses the word colonization in its own summary of the report. The subheadings are “Fought Under Allenby” and “Stab in the Back.”

The same congress passes a resolution about anti-Semitic outbreaks in Germany, in 1930.

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"Palestine Policy Assailed by Jews," Evening Star, 21 October 1930, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1930-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1930-001