The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 17 October 1944
CP-1944-001
Anti-Zionists Compared To Anti-Semites
By Albert W. Quinn, Sun Staff Correspondent, Atlantic City
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“Atlantic City, Oct. 16—Charges that prejudice against Jewish aims, comparable to anti-Semitism, exists even within the American Jewish community were made here today at the 47th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America.
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, executive vice-chairman of the Committee on Unity for Palestine… declared that ‘anti-Zionism exhibited by a small fraction of the American Jewish community is a manifestation of prejudice’ and that the ‘basic psychology can be compared to the psychology which underlies anti-Semitism.’ ‘It feeds on untruths,’ he said.
‘It is an emotional response to distorted images. Where the anti-Semite imagines a council of “the elders of Zion,” the anti-Zionist conjures up a “political nation-in-exile.”
Where the anti-Semite generalizes: “Jews are aggressive,” the anti-Zionist generalizes: “Zionists are un-American.”’ … He must be convinced that Zionism will not destroy their cherished status as Americans, that Palestine cannot be an adequate haven of refuge for Jews unless it belongs to Jews, that a Jewish Palestine will benefit rather than harm the Arab masses…”
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The argument that opposing Zionism is itself a prejudice, made at a Zionist convention and reported in full, in 1944.
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"Anti-Zionists Compared To Anti-Semites," The Baltimore Sun, 17 October 1944, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1944-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1944-001
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