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had. In vain did he fling away pa
thetically even his leadership in a
last hour press interview, attempt
ing to drive home to Congress the
great truth that the only basis for
Jewish settlement in Palestine at
present is that of “political parity
with the Arabs, and that the insist
ence upon a Jewish majority in Pales
tine would be interpreted by the out
side world as a desire to drive the
Arabs from the country.” All was in
vain. The waves of emotional extre
mism were beating too high for rea
son to penetrate and they blinded not
only the vision, but also the common
sense of a usually practical and com
mon sense people.
It was this extremism that was the
essence of the Seventeenth Zionist
Congress, revealing a new dangerous
tendency toward reaction, a tendency
hitherto practically unknown in mod
ern Jewish social movements which,
as a rule, ran more in the progres
sive, and even radical, direction. From
the very beginning, two parties bat
tled for supremacy at the congress,
and in the Zionist movement: the so-
called Revisionists and Labour. Nomi
nally, the Revisionists counted only 51
delegates, and Labour 80. But all the
other parties at the congress, from
the East-European clerical Mizrachi
to the American Liberal followers of
Justice Louis Brandeis, were permeat
ed with Revisionism, and its spirit un
doubtedly dominated the gathering
and controlled its underlying mood,
if not all of its decisions.
All this can, perhaps, be very easily
explained by the failures and disap
pointments of Zionism during the last
two years, but this did not make the
senseless violence of Revisionism, its
raging hatred, and its pitiful attempt
to imitate the extreme reactionarism
of present-day Europe and the less
repellent.
The fiery militaristic phrases; the
bombastic boast that “we wish to mi
litarise Jewish youth”; the brown
shirts of Hitlerism, worn demonstra
tively by the younger adherents, and
the whole spirit of fierce, narrow, il
liberal Nationalism deliberately fash
ioned after the German and Italian
Nationalist movements, and like them
oozing hatred of opponents, especial
ly of Labour—all that was so foreign
to a gathering of Jews as to make an
observer almost gasp. That Jewish
Nationalism could so nearly in its
development let loose such forces of
enmity and reaction was never fore
seen even by the most rabid oppon
ents of Zionism.
The extent of this extremism can
be gauged from a persual of the more
important Congress decisions. At a
time when the Arab world is up in
arms against Zionism because of its
fear of Jewish domination, the Revi
sionists, instead of pacifying these
fears, insisted on increasing them by a
restatement of the aims of Zionism
as the “establishment of a Jewish
Stiite in Palestine with a Jewish ma
jority on both sides of the Jordan.”
Only a small incident stood between
the acceptance of this resolution by
the majority of the Congress. But
even though it was not carried, a dec
laration by Dr. Weizmann that he
was not in sympathy with a Jewish
majority in Palestine, and that he
favored parity with the Arabs, was
also defeated and he lost his leader
ship with it.
War on the Arab world alone not
being deemed sufficient, Congress
flung another defiance to Great Brit
ain. The British Administration in
Palestine and the Colonial Office
were denounced at the Congress in
terms reminiscent of the old “Hun”
atrocity campaigns when the War
propaganda machines were working
at full steam. The worst of it all was
that all this, in accordance with the
usual custom of Zionists, was spoken
in the name of the whole Jewish peo
ple, the bulk of whom not only have
no quarrel with England, but consider
Great Britain “the least anti-Jewish
people in the world”. If ever extreme
Zionism has revealed its true, non-
Jewish character, and its remoteness
from real Jewish interests, it is in
this irresponsible campaign against
Great Britain.
But while these wars against the
Arab and the British world were
waged only on the platform, a more
effective war was conducted against
the Labour wing of the Zionist move
ment and against Dr. Weizmann. La
bour has been deprived of the control
which it has exercised till now on
Jewish labour immigration into Pal
estine—a fact which may influence
the selection of the entire future hu
man material coming into Palestine.
The decision favoring private enter
prise and middle-class investment in
Palestine was also intended as a blow
to the present system of predomi
nantly social effort and Labour en
terprise.
Most violent of all was the outburst
of extremism at the Congress which
brought about the termination of Dr.
Weizmann’s leadership. The whole of
the Congress seethed and revolved
around this question, and it undoubt
edly constituted the chief business of
the gathering. The significance of the
event lies not in the fact that a man
who had led the Zionist movement
for thirteen years, and has done for
Zionism more than any other living
person, has been removed from the
leadership. Things like these have hap
pened, and will happen as long as
there are social movements. What is
more significant and what caused all
the storms, deadlocks and most of the
violent outbursts at the Congress, is
that the Zionist ship dropped its old
pilot at the most critical moment,
without having anyone else to put in
his place at the wheel. For the fact
is that the Zionist movement has not
produced another personality of Dr.
Weizmann’s caliber able to lead it, and
to command the respect and good will
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