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1 .Israel Zangwill Flays British Toleration of Russian Anti-Semitism

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Policy
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so, a new chapter sian Jews, her restoration of Pales-
the Jews of Jewish autonomy, but in Arab genius to do
At a time ,when
would be opened in the history of tine to their race would be at once
Great Britain are busy stiffling all autonomy.
mankind, the ends of the ages a peace offering to her own con-
"It
all
requires
a
radically
science and a consoling assurance
sentiments of sympathy for their
,, - would meet, and the 'tribe of the to the martyrs of the Pale that
in
Russia
lest
they
be
ac-
native
policy,
a
dealing
in
future
weary breast,'
brethren in
pasts by men ready to wandering foot and hundred years they had not agonized in vain."
kinship
with
the
as
well
as
nineteen
cttsed of undue
it takes tour- rescue human history from its mo- which for
Mr. Zangwill also bitterly at.:
-enemies of the realm,
has prayed for Palestine some tacks the anti-semitic policy of the
order
for
a
British
notonous
factors
of
blood
and
gold.
age Of a high
Russian government, showing how
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absurd
is the argument that a pro-
silent
the governmental policy of a
gram
of
anti-Jewish legislation is
toleration of the Czar's inhuman
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necessary in order to keep the Jews•
treatment of his Jewish subjects.
from dominating Russia.
Such a man is Israel Zangwill, the
Says he
great Jewish author and play-
book,
en-
"I could almost fancy myself lis-
wright. In his latest
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for
the
\\Todd
tening
again to that Russian Baron-
"The
War
titled
Zangwill
has
some
very
frank
ess who, brought to luncheon at my
Mr.
things to say concerning the Jew-
house one day by a common friend,
problem
arising
out
of
the
war
fell to expatiating on the 'terrible
ish
to
help
the
and calls upon England
, problem' of the Jews in Russia. A
Jews obtain Palestine in atone-
sympathetic soul, thought I, till
ment for her approbation of the
gradually I became aware that the
anti-sernitic policy of her Russian
'terrible problem' was not for the
Jews but for the Russians.
ally.
"Once, in fact, permit these ter-
He says:
"And finally there is Palestine.
rible nebrews to escape from their
Pale, once allow them the educa-
which, as the Manchester Guardian
explains, is now necessary to the
tional and industrial facilities of
British Empire, inasmach as 'there
their fellow-Russians, and they
can be no satisfactory defense of
presto! they are the rulers of Rus-
Egypt or the Suez Canal so long as
sia.
Palestine is in occupation of a hos-
"It is only when one looks at
tile or possibly hostile power.' If
maps and figures that the complete
Britain took .Palestine she could
silliness of this Slavinic supersti-
make .no greater stroke of policy
breaks upon one. The Rus-
, ,
than to call in the Jews to regen-
sian Empire—even without the ter-
erate it for her. Failing this con-
ritorial gains the war may bring it
quest, even if Turkey, under Ger-
—stretches over nearly nine million
man shrewdness, made a similar
sqtiare
square miles and occupies one-sixth
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offer to the Jews, I for one would
of the land surface of the globe.
hold no truck with the assassins of
Siberia alone is more than a million
the Armenians, should it turn out
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miles larger than the whole of
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that the Turks proper and not the
Europe.
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Kurds are responsible. The ac-
"And this Empire, which, like
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ceptance of Palestine aom such a
the
United States, has the supreme
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power would be an anti-climax to
advantage of continuousness, is in-
Jewish history.
habited by • nearly a hundred and
"But even under British suzer-
eighty million people, of ,whom only
ainty the restoration of the Jews
six millions are Jews. And it is
would not be easy. Despite the
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these six millions—one in thirty of
heroic creations of Jewish colonies
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the population—who, given a free
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—now alas! half destroyed—the
field and no disfavor, are to domi-
ISRAEL ZAN GWILL
Jews hold too few vested interests
nate Russia, the tip of the tail wag-
in the soil to have a claim to it on
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pliment to the Jews but it is also a
numbered, even before the great
twenty
times
a
day,
would
find
it
great absurdity.
I
of
the
e
war migration, only 100,000 out of Napoleon, under. the se
self
on
its
holy
soil
under
the
aegis
"Contemporary politics shows us
700,000, mainly Arabs, and pos- forty centuries that rega ded him of the greatest empire. in the world,
his
traced
sessed only 2 per cent of the soil. from the Pyramids, anno to their victorious after the greatest strug- • numerous examples of races kept
Unless, therefore the Arabs would design to restore the Jew
gle in her history. And inasmuch from equal rights with the govern-
h
Egypt
trek into Arabia, or could be peace- land. Will England. Wi out the as by her tinion with Russia 'Eng- ing race on the ground—or pretext
fully expropriated, any government equally at • her feet, carr
land would have marched to this —of intellectual inferiority; _that
example, the justification of
set up on a constitutional demo- plan she - foiled Napoleon . i
victory over the bodies of the Rus- is, tor
the
ind
she
the
power
"Had
critic basis Wouid result n9>: in a

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