Page Three DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Friday, December 17, 1948 Strictly Confidential Hails Petagorsky Article on ZOA Survival By PHINEAS I. BIRON THE CONGRESS WEEKLY, house organ of the Am- erican Jewish 'Congress, featured a rather signifi- cant article. recently. Written by David Petagorsky, executive direc- tor of the Congress, it analyzed the question as to whether the Zionist Organization should be liquidated, now that the Jewish State is es- tablished. The article, an extraordinarily intelligent statement, can in a way be shrugged off as anti-Zionist. Pet- agorsky with whom we rarely agree, establishes his pro-Zionism beyond P. J. Biron any doubt. If anything, he emerges a maximum Zionist who would like to see the entire Jewish community in America participate in the sup- port of Israel. Yet his question is a realistic one. THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION can only deal with disciplined members of its organization, he says. What about the tens of thousands of Jews who, while being sincerely concerned about the fate of Israel, are un- willing to accept the Zionist ideology of the General Zionists or the Labor Zionists or for that matter of any Zionist party. How are they to function as friends of the Jewish State? • • • THE POLITICAL'clirection of Israel must necessarily remain in the hands of the Israeli government. And so it is logical to expect the ZOA to either revise its pro- graM and its structure or follow the example of the American Jewish Conference by liquidating. Don't miss Petagorsky's provocative article. We rec- ommend to the American Jewish Congress that it re- print the Petagorsky piece and freely distribute it. A frank and intelligent debate as to whether the ZOA should survive in its present structure is indeed very much in order. • WE WONDER why the Zionist Emergency Council sent so stupid a letter to the American Jewish Congress. The letter protested against the Congress' "too great an interest in Zionist affairs." • . Why is the anti- Defamation League silent these days about the alarm- ing growth of Gerald K. Smith activities! And why did this Jewish defense organization, with a budget of mil- lions per year, discontinue its campaign against the re- juvenated K.K.K.? Is the Bnai Brith going to concen- trate on raising funds for the Jews of Israel? And will the UJA insist that the Bnai Brith limit is campaign to the sending of food? • • • • THE DEATH OF Dr. Judah L. Magnes is seriously endangering the maintenance of the "Hebrew Univers- (Continued on Page 16) • • Zukerman Says: has become synonymous with Off the Record: 'treason.' ''Few, if any, have dared to speak out against the many evils of mis-appropriati,on of public trust that have accompanied the growth of the huge monopoly known as the UJA Who has questioned the fact that no more than 30 cents of icalism in the new state must be By NATHAN ZIPRIN ates a plan for the reorganization every dollar actually finds its By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN covering their faces . • . NFORMED persons were not When Ambassador Douglas re- (Jewish World News Service) of the American Jewish commun- way over to Israel? Nor can any- surprised when the British del- turned from London he held a NEW YORK—The Paris ses- ity to meet the revolutionary one morally justify the diversion sion of the UN came to an end changes wrought in Jewish social of $750,000 by the New York UJA egate to the UN, Harold Beeley, conference with President Tru- without bringing its greatest gift life by the emergence of the to the Jewish Telegraphic Ag- warned Britain would take mili- man on the Palestine issue. Ile ency." tary action against Israel in the tried to sway the President from to Israel, admission to member- Jewish State. event its forces penetrated into his announced Palestine course on In the course of his analysis, VALUABLE COMMENT ship of the UN. Yet it was a great Both Hurwitz and Fishbein Transjordan. the Bernadotte plan. Mr. Truman session for Israel and it accom- Hurwitz makes a vigorous attack plished more for the new Jewish on the so-called "defense agen- propose certain measures to rem- When King Abdullah an- was firm. cies" which, according to him, edy the evil they criticize. Like nounced recently his intention of In the end Douglas pulled his State than was ever expected. The session opened in the shad- are the chief cause for the "gal- all panaceas, their's too, seem to becoming also king of Palestine, trump card. He told Mr. Truman ow of the murder of Count Bern- loping vulgarization of Jewish fall short of the ideal. (Hurwitz's London immediately announced a there had been "a gentlemen's solution of the problem by a re- mutual anti-aggression pact with agreement" with the British that adotte and it looked like that ter- life" in the United States. vival of the Synagogue as a cen- the gentleman who was the major the U.S. would support the Bern- rible crime would hurt irrepar- ASKS ABOLITION tral institution in American Jew- aggressor against the UN. Nor adotte scheme. The President ably the cause of Israel at least Hurwitz makes the claim that ish life, seems particularly unreal M this session. For a time, senti- was Beeley's impudent lie about was reported to have replied he "On this side of the water, anti- and far-fetched.) But this does an Israeli incursion into Trans- was too much of a gentleman to ment was indeed, strong against the Jewish State, but thanks to Semitism provides the 'scare not detract from the value of the jordan unexpected. Beeley is an become a party to such an agree- the miracle of the American pres- power' without which the defense criticism, nor from the courage old master at the Arab game. He ment ... • • idential election and to the new agencies could not demand their of the critics. was the architect of the Arab It is not always incumbent up- League ... OLD BEVIN SMEAR American attitude on Palestine, ever increasing budgets from the • • • BEVIN HASN'T said it yet the position of Israel improved communities." He cites figures on critics to accompany their neg- publicly, but it is no longer a from week to week toward the showing millions of dollars being ative findings with positive solu- REAL DEMOCRACY spent every year for combating tions. Constructive criticism is end of the session. IF' THERE was any doubt that secret that that discredited La- anti-Semitism which, in his opin- sufficient in itself, especially in BENEFITS TO ISRAEL Israel would be the sole democ- borite has revived his libel about The American break with Eng- ion are useless and harmful by American-Jewish life where it racy in the Middle East, that communism dominating the Jew- land on the Bernadotte plan; the "debasing and distorting Jewish is so rare,,. doubt has been dissipated by the ish State. The recent stories UPA CLASH ENDS consequent rejection of the plan life in America." publication of its proposed con- about Israel purchasing arms He proposes the complete abo. The controversy within the stitution. The Koestlers and the from pro-Soviet countries were by the UN.; the support of Israel lition of these defense agencies UPA has been finally closed for so-called radicals who have been intended to smear Israel with for membership by the United States; the decision for direct and the repudiation of the very good with the signing of an raving about the danger of cler- communism. notion of a separate Jewish agen- agreement between the UPA and peace negotiations between Israel tine policy it followed, Dr. Eman- and the Arab states instead of cy to fight anti-Semitism on the the dissident group of Coatribu- uel Neumann, ZOA president, UN mediation, each of these ground that such a fight is the tors and Workers who had threat- said at a meeting of the national events was of tremendous signifi- duty of the entire American com- ened to split the UJA drive next administrative council of the munity, Christian and Jewish year by starting an independent cance and benefit to Israel. ZOA. collection machinery and calling Even though the professional alike. a convention in Atlantic City. Dr. Neumann asserted that, Jeremiahs among Jews and non- CONDEMNS DRIVES The present agreement does Jews, continue to cry 'Betrayal' NEW YORK (WNS)—Ameri- without these efforts, Washington It so happened that this sharp and a new 'Dreyfus case,' the po- article in the Menorah Journal away entirely with this danger ca's 5,000,000 Jews played a vast most likely "would have followed sition of Israel was never strong- coincided with similar criticism and may therefore be considered role in the creation of the Jewish London in that partnership she er than it is now at the close of by another acute observer of the a victory for the Zionist majority, State, and without their active has taken with England on so the Paris session of the UN ... Jewish scene in America, J. I. but the dissidents also claim a efforts the U.S. government many world matters since the victory because the UPA leader- might not have adopted the Pales- end of the war." PRESS CRITICISM Fishbein, editor of the Chicago • Two outstanding Jewish publi- Sentinel. Fishbein has just re- ship gave in to the principle of cations came out with serious turned from an extensive tour of a 40 percent representation of the charges against the policies and the country and he reported that communities in the UPA. Whoever won the victory, all leadership of certain Jewish soc- "WITHOUT EXCEPTION t h e ial organizations. They are the major Jewish organizations are are pleased now that the contro- Only 2 days left to buy your ticket for the most versy, which at one time assum- Menorah Journal and the Chi- suffering slow paralysis." outstanding musical affair of the year. cago Sentinel. He came to the conclusion that ed petty personal aspects, is at an end. 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