World Today

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A note on this oneThe column quoted here repeats an antisemitic trope about Jewish financial and political power and compares Zionists to Hitler. It is transcribed in full because the alternative is to publish only the parts of this newspaper run that are comfortable.

World Today — New Pittsburgh Courier, 5 June 1948 — New Pittsburgh Courier · 5 June 1948

Transcribed from the clipping

“AN ARAB SPOKESMAN sharply criticized U. S. press ‘freedom’ last week for unfairness in reporting Zionist-Arab controversy in Palestine. How true! Arabs have right, justice and common sense on their side, but the Zionists have great financial power, several million U. S. votes and unparalleled propaganda agencies on their side. Zionist arguments and actions have an uncomfortably familiar sound reminiscent of Der Fuehrer.”

Context added by this archive

A signed column in a Black weekly, agreeing with an Arab complaint about American press coverage. What it then says about financial power, votes and propaganda is an antisemitic trope, and the last sentence compares Zionists to Hitler. It is here because the Black press run in this archive is not a set of clippings chosen for being right.

Cite this item

"World Today," New Pittsburgh Courier, 5 June 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-094. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-094

Elsewhere in the archive

Palestine Column Called MisleadingNew Pittsburgh Courier · 17 January 1948 · the same newspaper
Palestine Affair Essentially WickedNew Pittsburgh Courier · 7 February 1948 · the same newspaper
Palestine Question Important to Negroes Throughout World—BuncheNew Pittsburgh Courier · 21 February 1948 · the same newspaper
JEWS TAKE TWO FORTS FROM ARABSMt. Vernon Register-News · 1948 · the same year
Jewish Reprisal Raids On Two Arab Villages Take Toll of 8 LivesThe News Journal · 1 January 1948 · the same year
Jews Steal Into Jaffa, Set Blast Killing 14 Arabs and Injuring 90Times Herald · 5 January 1948 · the same year

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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