By JOSEF FRAENKEL
When an anti-Semitic paper
publishes distorted stories about
Jews and the State of Israel,
it is a waste of time sending
in a correction, for these re-
ports are obviously the main
sustenance of such papers. But
the London weekly Spectator is
not an anti-Semitic journal, al-
though it seems, in the last few
years, to have preferred to at-
tack the State - of Israel with
consistent unfairness. It is re-
grettable that such a paper
should misinform its readers
and refuse to correct false
statements, especially about
Theodor Herzl.
n
app
ecta or, to , does nothing to
full of 'malicious allegations
aainst the Jews. When such
articles are published the.
Sp
i its prejudice against the
hde
t
Sate
of Israel.
Childers
1961,
May 12,
On
again
Other Exodus." In over two
he tries to explain . that
ish State" be worked across the
frontier.
I challenge the Spectator
and Erskine B. Childers- to
quote the page in Herzl's
Diaries or in the booklet
"The Jewish State," in which
such a proposal is mentioned.
Childers writes that Herzl's
"draft Charter for Zionist
Colonization of Palestine and
Syria which he submitted . to
the Ottoman Sultanate, Article
-III was to give Zionists the
right to deport the native popu-
lation — in other words, the
Arabs."
The truth is, that Herzl never
drafted the . above-mentioned
Charter which was never sub-
mitted to the Ottoman Sul-
tanate and Herzl never pr
posed to deport the na
population.
Article III of the
mentioned Charter, draft
Dr. M. Bodenheimer, do
mention "the right to
the native population."
a misrepresentation and
translation of Article III and
IV which deals with the right
to an exchange of Land Prop-
erty within the Ottoman Em-
pire by voluntary agreement.
Theodor Herzl's sincere
ambition was to achieve
mutual toleration and friend-
ship between the, Jewish-
Arab population as he de-
scribed it in his novel "Old
New Land."
Why should ,Childers c
stantly attack the Jews and
State of Israel? There
be some reason. Is it beca
of another exodus, the exod
of the Family Sampson Gideon
from the Jewish people?-
odus," but "was truck by
the Zionists were responsible
or the. Arab exodus. He has
studied "every official Israeli
satement about the Arab
ex
h fact that no primary evi-
te
d e nce of evacuation orders
from the Arabs) was ever pro-
d u ced." The same thing hap-
e
pned
to him when he exam-
in ed papers in the British
M
fin
h matter, his main source, is.
tis
an article, published in a
notorious anti-Zionigt and anti
Israel JeWish newsletter, edited
by a former Salon-Communist Priest Writes Book
who left London in a hurry at
te beginning of the last war Stressing Link - Between
for New York. This article ap- Judaism; Christianity
pe
An eminent -kiench'Ituthority
h
te.Palestine
war.
on theological history, Father
Childers, who. said ' he Paul Demann, in his 'recefttly
s
Scrutinized
all the Arab published book, "J u d a is in,"
s tatements against the Jews states that he believea -that.th
during 1948, does not quote break
--
-thatdevelopd_
beiwe
th
their threats. De facto, not Jews and Christiarig,
one Jew survived in the Arab early days.
piristianity, -ill
part of Palestine. How many someday be mended. --
Jews.live -in Arab. Jerusalem
Demann's "At-deist:if-w inla-
Oda?? But in .Israel there Iisheir
Afaiittfortt. Roy - _X:70
are about - 230,000 Arabs. He 5th Ave., N. Y. 11)
_
Ignores the truth, that the
his
In the introduction
Ax ab leaders, all the mem- book Father Demann r rs to
be rs of the Arab Executive, the Jews as "separated::; +reth
le
ren," stating that they a "the
1
root from which we s
followed their example at Their destiny "and their fa
that time and during the war, moreover, as well as their exis-
for reasons best known to tence in our midst, are of the
emselves.
deepest concern to ourselves.
'That is the essential justifica-
tion Of this book."
According to Deman n, "a
happy evolution i ding to
restore_
time that open minder ness an
that des'
or a respectful and
brot
approach which—in
f all that separates us—'
s us in a better position to
derstand the life and
• 1-
tion of Judaism."
Paul Demann,,a C t h
en- priest, is a centr
eir European ovem
he
, but breach b . e"
Jews.
f con- secrets
Jazi cupied
' ders gium
g
ld W
sstate- and, si
8, has bee
me,
and .tor of
our n a
ahier
erzl. Sioni n s, Paris,
of the
On
• hed Centre d'Etude e
Documen-
he tation, both
which are
devoted t
rapprochement
ristians and Jews,
use m: As he was unable to
d ocuments pertain g to
years after
11
ared .in 1959
of
g.
$60,000 Science Grant
REHOVOTH — A$ 6 0, 0 0 0
thr ee-y ear grant has been
awarded by. .the U.S. National
Institutes of He a l t h to Dr.
Avraham Patchornik, of the
Biophysics Department at the
Weizrnann Institute of Science,
it was announced by Professor
Amos de-Shalit, chairman of the
scientific committee and ad-
ministrative d i r e c tor of the
Weizmann Institute.
Recently, by chance,
saw
an old issue of the Jewish
Chronicle (January 31, 1896) in
which there was a note about
the family Childers which "had"
at least one claim On the Jew-
ish community, that of kinship
—Both of his father's and - his
mother's side he was an
Abudiente, and was descended
from the famous -financier,
Sampson Gideon, whose name
was to the first half of the
eighteenth century what that
of Nathan Rothschild
hundred years later."
The story,
is told
erary Anecdotes
of t
ighteenth Century" by
Nichole (Volume IX,
ondon, 1815), in "Es s in
Jewish • tory" by Lu n olf
(London 19k), i dim
of En
Hyam
in "S
Lucy
don,
deon, "the most
anent English Jew of his
day," had differences with the
leaders of the Sephardic
munity becaus
ceased to
m er of the
Bevis
s Synagogue but
cant'
d to pay his , contribu-
tio `anonymously." T
esig-
ion. of Sampson Gid
ho
as kno
in
n
on
as Simp n
u
Abu-
diete,
Jew Br er ,
most co
er-
able' of is
e," wa
essed
with
ial ambi
and to
receiv& a title
as a Jew, in
his time •
as difficult and
sed, he complained to
the Prime Minister that the
Jew, Antonio' Lopez 'Suasso was
created a Baron by the King of
Spain and that the Jew, Diego
Pereira de Aguilar was made
a Baron of the Briti
but he, whose ildren were
baptised, was d
vilege. In
end his only son,
age
een, was created ' a
b
et.
From his daughters
re de-
scended Hugh Cullin
ardleY.
Childers and Ro •
Childer
. In I is la
wi
Sampson
Gideon u s .:.
- • I at he hi
'self_ re i ' e Jew and he
a _th I_er d 'pounds to t.
on-
gre fr n with the
est to
be buried in the
ish ceme-
tery of Mile
according to
the Jewis
customed cere-
monie
.1 that "annually, on
ay of Atonement, his
name be commemorated with
those of other benefactors of
the Congregation.".
Argentina Dedicates
Rabbinical Seminary
To this day, the Haham and
the Sephardic Jews of the Bevis
Marks Synagogue pray "as the
evening service of Yom Kippur
comes to a close" for .the soul
of Sampson Gideon or Simpson
de Rehuel Abudiente, the an-
cestor of the family Childers.
And today, one of his de-
scendants, Mr. Erskine B.
Childers, constantly abuses the
Jews and Israel, Herzl and
Zionism, by misinterpretation,
misrepresentation and mistrans-
on.
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
The first rabbinical seminary in
Argentina, organized here three
months ago,, was officially dedi-
cated here, with the participa-
tion of many of the Argentine
Jewish community leaders.
The seminary, which has 20
students, headed by an Orthodox
rabbi, Rabbi Jacob Fink, is in-
tended to train Jewish spiritual
leaders, not only for the Ar-
gentine, but also for service
and leadership in neighboring
countries.
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7 — THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, September 29, 1961
Expose of British Anti-Semite Who Stems from Prominent Jews