The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1945

CP-1945-016

Arabs Decry Zionism

Scan 500 × 674 pixels

Transcribed from the clipping

“Charging that the Zionist campaign for continued immigration into Palestine was ‘purely imperialistic and political in character,’ the Institute of Arab American Affairs, in a message to President Truman, declared yesterday that the only solution to the Jewish problem would be to enforce democracy in the countries of Europe.”

Context added by this archive

Khalil Totah, executive director, writing from New York. An Arab-American organization addressing an American president in an American paper — and the headline gives it the verb decry, which is what papers give to people whose argument they are not going to print at length.

Cite this item

"Arabs Decry Zionism," The New York Times, 7 October 1945. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1945-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1945-016

More from The New York Times

• The Maine Colony in PalestineThe New York Times · 12 November 1866
• Jewish Colonization in PalestineThe New York Times · 9 December 1883
• Jewish State in Palestine OpposedThe New York Times · 9 July 1897
• ZIONIST CONGRESS IN BASELThe New York Times · 31 August 1897
• ROME FEARS THE ZIONISTSThe New York Times · 12 September 1897
• PROGRESS OF ZIONISMThe New York Times · 16 December 1901
• 437 more from this paper in the full text →

More from the 1940s

• Only the Rich Can Share ’Em In a Harem, Arab Gals InsistDaily News · 18 January 1945
• Palestinian Artist’s Work Will Be Shown at LibraryThe Standard Times · 18 March 1945
• Arab Propaganda in the United StatesWisconsin Jewish Chronicle · 6 July 1945
• Rebuttal on PalestineThe Binghamton Press · 27 October 1945
• Palestinian Jews Call A General StrikeUnion City Times Gazette · 14 November 1945
• Hoover Urges Plan to Move Arabs from PalestinePittsburgh Press · 19 November 1945
• All 298 clippings from the 1940s →