Press of Atlantic City · Atlantic City, New Jersey · 3 October 1942
CP-1942-002
Stateless, Palestinian Jews Organize
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“About 40 representative Jewish residents of Atlantic City gathered at Kornblau’s Restaurant yesterday and unanimously resolved to support the movement for creation of a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews.
They formed a local chapter of the national committee, comprising Jews and Gentiles and headed by Pierre Van Paassen, author and lecturer, which is seeking, through pressure of public opinion, to bring this about. Morris Batzer and E M Biron were elected associate chairmen of the local chapter.
Principal speaker at the meeting, which was called and presided over by Dr Rudolph Hyman, was Ben Eliezer, of Palestine. He was introduced by Alex Wilf, of Philadelphia, chairman of the Philadelphia Chapter… It was explained by Biron that it is not the purpose to seek to enroll Jewish nationals of either this country or any of the United Nations in the proposed Jewish Army.
These nationals will serve under the armies of their respective governments. It is proposed to constitute the Jewish Army with Palestinians and the numerous refugee Jews who are at present being interned in various countries for lack of passports and who are Stateless.
Such an Army, if organized and equipped, would fight wherever the United Nations thought expedient, Biron declared.”
Context added by this archive
Here Palestinians means Jewish residents of Palestine. The subhead is “Speaker From Palestine.”
Cite this clipping
"Stateless, Palestinian Jews Organize," Press of Atlantic City, 3 October 1942, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1942-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1942-002
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