Soviet Russia, Zionists, and Arabs
SHUB, DAVID
Soviet Russia, Zionists, and Arabs Communists and Russia Remain Foes of Zionism By David Shub Editorial writer, Jewish Daily Forward; author of two volumes entitled, "Martyrs of the Russian...
...They favor Palestine becoming an Arab-Jewish state, and demand that Palestine should be "democratized," which means in effect that the Arabs, who are now In the majority in Palestine, should govern that country...
...SoME naive Jews ask why the Jewish Communists give support to the struggle for the "rebuilding of a national Jewish home in Palestine...
...They say one thing and mean another...
...Now that England is in the hands of a democratic Socialist Government, it is doubly justified, according to them, to conduct such a drive...
...He stressed the need for Jewish-Arab closeness and cooperation, and' of a democratization of Palestine, to base itself upon equal national rights...
...Usbeki-stan, Tadjekistan, Kazhakstan, and Kirghizia...
...This it the meaning of the entire Communist demsgogy concerning Palestine and the Jews...
...Thus emerged the Zloniat-Ccmmunist united front — the most senseless and immoral of all united fronts...
...The Soviet representative in Palestine, Abdul Sul-tanov, has, every Friday, gone for prayers in the Omar Mechet in Jerusalem in order to strengthen his connections with the Palestinian Arabs...
...Those Jews who support the policies of British and American imperialism are working for the Jewish community to remain on a volcano...
...Communist newspapers, including the Jewish ones, hailed in 1929 the pogroms which the Arabs then perpetrated upon the Jews in Palestine as a "people's revolution...
...No Zionist with integrity, and no nationally-conscious Jew who knows any thing st all, esn afford to strengthen the Communist influence in ths world without betraying, thereby, his own ideals and the interests of the Jewish people...
...This fact is of great political significance, as one religion links the people of the Arabic countries with the 75,000,000 Mohammedans of India and with the 25,000,000 Mohammedans in Russia...
...In Palestine, the Comintern gave aid to the Arab terrorists...
...This was considered as clear evidence that Moscow had actually changed its attitude towards Zionism, and the Nahum Goldmans succeeded in tslking a majority of Zionist leaders into the belief that the sslvation of Zionism ran come only from Moscow...
...author of two volumes entitled, "Martyrs of the Russian Revolution" THE Soviet Government am* considered Zionism as a counter-revolutionary movement for 28 years...
...Moscow plans to win over the Arabs, who constitute a majority in Syria, through one of its Moslem Asiatic republics which will soon establish direct diplomatic relations with Syria...
...This is the opposite of what Zionists, the World Jewish Congress, and the American Jewish Conference are demanding...
...The Mohammedans constitute 90 percent of the population of the Middle East, and religion plays, in these countries, a much greater role than in the rest of the world...
...Raising the minimum wage from 40** to 664 an hour would, in the long run, lower prices by increasing productivity...
...The Hebrew language was prohibited in Russia many years ago, and active Zionists were thrown into jails and concentration camps, or deported to Siberia...
...Eight of the eleven Soviet Republics which in 1939 constituted the Soviet Union border on Asia—Georgia, Armenia, Azerbidjan, Turkomania...
...Feffer and Michoels did not go to Palestine...
...In truth, however, these Zionists sre being used by the Communists In the interests of the Soviet Government and the "dissolved" Comintern...
...in August, 1943, the Soviet diplomatic commission arrived in Cairo, and has been very active there ever since...
...The Communists remain foes of Zionism and of every free Jewish nstionsl movement...
...For the Soviet Government, and tor the Comintern, there does not exist a Jewish Palestine...
...The "Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee" thanked the Zionist leaders in Palestine for the aid which Palestinians had sent to Russia...
...Messrs...
...Not one of the arrested or exiled Zionists who had not publicly repudiated their Zionist convictions has been freed from jail or permitted to return from exile...
...No, the Jewish Communists of the United States do not support Zionism and the demands of the Zionists...
...Very recently the Communist parties of Syria and Lebanon as well as the Communist Arabian League for National Liberation in Palestine, have passed resolutions demanding the complete cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine...
...The Arab Communist newspaper in Palestine, Alaitichad, has been conducting a campaign against the Jewish national homeland...
...The Palestine Communist Party was, several years before the war, completely "Arabixed," and those Jewish Communists who refused to be tools in the hands of the enemies of the Jewish people were expelled from the party...
...Some of them gave the impression that after the war the Soviet Government would give support "to the progressive Jews in Palestine, rather than to the backward Arabs who are controlled by the feudal cliques and effendis (rich landholders)," That statement was made by a prominent Soviet diplomat to a Zionist delegation in 1943...
...In 1944, the Soviet Government sent ^ Professor Abramian—the dean of the University of Soviet Armenia—to gain the support of the Armenians in Syria...
...The Neiwelt, organ of the Left Poale Zionists in Palestine, relates that the Palestine Communist press has published the speech of Chalid Bagdasch, the secretary of the Communist Party in Syria...
...INDUSTRIIS CAN PAY *5c MINIMUM WvSHINGTON (LI'A...
...The answer is that the Jewish Communists are using the words "Jewish national homeland" demagogically...
...In most of them the majority of the population is Mohammedan, and from there the Soviet influence is spread to the surrounding Mohammedan countries, under British rule...
...For this purpose the "Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow," headed by the late, well-known GPU agent, Shakhno Epstein, was organized...
...That is Why those who ¦uspect that the new struggle for a commonwealth, and the reactionary offensive which will soon start in th« Jewish community in Palestine to seek to force the Labor Government in London to adopt the division plan, are not entirely wrong...
...He pointed out the chapges which took place in Palestine during the war, the importance of the struggle for the abolition of the White Paper, and the free development of a Jewish national home in Palestine...
...If it Is at all possible to establish, today, a Jewish commonwealth, it is only possible in a part of Palestine...
...Ths "smart" Zionist leaders who associate with the Communists think that they will succeed in utilizing ths Communists for their purposes...
...Last summer the Soviet Government established diplomatic relations with Syria and Lebanon, and in September, 1944, with Iraq...
...The sharp opposition of the Jewish Communists to a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine was expressed even more clearly in a story from Tel Aviv, printed in the Freihtit of September 30: "What has been the desire, to date, of the Ben Gurion-Silver combination...
...The Soviet Government seeks, as heretofore, to win the Arabs to its side, and never have Soviet agents been as active in the Middle East as in the past four years...
...Such a raise in wsge standards is "imperative for the health of our economy," OPA Administrator Chester Bowles asserted to the Senate end Labor Education Committee, testifying on ths Pepper-Hook minimum wags bill...
...At the same time, the Jewish' Communists of all countries (excluding Soviet Russia' and Palestine) received an order to change their "line," to turn "their faces to the Jewish people," and declare themselves for the Jewish Homeland...
...Mikunem explained the policy of the Palestinian Communist Party...
...The Big Three...
...The decree abolishing the Hebrew language and Zionism In Russia has never been rescinded...
...Ths OPA administrator cited facts and figures to show that in ths industries that would be most affected by the 66c minimum — tobacco processing, textile, furniture, apparel, lumbering — the industries ars capable of granting the increased wsges without passing on any more than a tiny pries incrsase to consumers...
...that the Soviet government will aid the Jews in obtaining Palestine, if only the Zionists will lick Stalin's beets, accept the Jewish Communists in all Jewish organizations, and aid morally the numerous Communist "front" organisations...
...In a cable from Jaffe, in the New York Communist Yiddish daily Freihtit of September 11, we read: "S...
...During the war years, Soviet influence grew stronger in the Arabian countries...
...Egypt was the first of the Arab countries to grant recognition to Soviet Rutaia...
...Simultaneously, Soviet agents in the Middle East began to spread the rumor that the Soviet Government had changed its attitude towards Palestine and Zionism...
...Last mouth, there took place the ninth convention of the Communist Party in Palestine...
...Moscow ia very much interested in arousing against England not only the Arabs, but also the Jews of the world...
...The Soviet Government had no desire that its delegates should, in Palestine, openly associate with the' Zionists, as this might have aroused the Arabs...
...Saudi Arabia's relations with Moscow are via the Soviet Embassy in Cairo, an important Soviet center for political activities throughout che Arabian lands, as David J. Dalhn points out in his recent book...
...In the Frtiheit of September 28, the editor writes: "Let no one think that the Jewish community in Palestine can be given security by British imperialism, or by a combination of British and American imperialism...
...The position of the Communists in Syria toward Jewish immigration and colonization," writes the Neiufelt, "resembles the position of the Arab reactionaries, as one drop of water resembles another...
...No word favorable to a Jewish Palestine was permitted in the Soviet press...
...During the war the Soviet Government sought to win the sympathy of Jews thrpughout the world...
...Only in a coalition with the Soviet Union liet a guaranty for the community, and only in the cooperation of Jews and Arabs together against every type of reaction and against every sort of imperialism...
...If the Zionist leaders had read carefully the Communist newspapers, they would have known that the Soviet.Government has not changed and does not intend to change its attitude towards Zionism1 and Palestine...
...Two other prominent J3PU agents, Itzek Fetter and Schlome Michoels, were sent to England and the United States, allegedly as delegates of Russian Jewry, to influence Jewish public opinion of the two countries, and to gain the support of the Jewish organizations abroad for the Soviet Union...
...They only give aid to the vicious campaign against England...
...Their followers swsar thst they desire that a Jewish commonwealth should at once be established throughout Pslestine, but a person with some logic understands that this wish is absurd...
...The Communists are even now opposed to a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine...
...Communist propaganda in the Arabian lands, including Palestine, makes an effort to present the Soviet Government as the only real protector of the Arabs, and even of Mohammedanism...
...Communist newspapers throughout the world have shed crocodile tears over the bitter fste of the "Arab masses" in Palestine who, according to them, were brutally exploited by "English imperialists and their Zionist agents...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 47
