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1 Dorothy Thompson's Second Awakening: Activism on Behalf Of Dorothy Thompson’s Second Awakening: Activism on Behalf of Palestine (1939-1961) Dorothy Thompson in Palestine, 19451 Sara Mohammed Al-Attiyah Mentor: Dr. Karine Walther A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Honors in International History Georgetown University, Qatar Spring 2020 1 Scrapbook 7, Dorothy Thompson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgments……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 List of Figures…………………………………………………………………………………….4 Acronyms………………… ………………………………………………………………………5 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..6 Chapter 1: Formative Years (1893-1945) ……………………………………………………….22 Chapter 2: From Zion to Palestine (1945-1957) ………………………………………………... 43 Chapter 3:The Ultimatum (1957-1961)………………………………………………………… 64 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………….78 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………..84 2 Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mentor Dr. Karine Walther for making my Georgetown experience a truly memorable one. With her, the completion of this project has been made possible only because of her constant support and guidance. I am both grateful and thankful for professor Walther’s patience, efforts, valuable advice, and her highly appreciated assistance. Her valuable help with this thesis and her belief in me can never be overestimated. 3 List of Figures Figure 1: “Cartwheel Girl,” Dorothy Thompson on the Cover of Time, June 12, 1939 Figure 2: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine, 1945 Figure 3: Picture from Dorothy Thompson’s scrapbook covering her 1945 visit to Palestine. During her trip, Thompson was guided by soldiers working for the British Mandatory power. The flag shown in the picture originally representing the Zionist movement, and would later become the official flag of Israel Figure 4: Photograph of Dorothy Thompson’s Scrapbook with images taken during her trip to the Middle East in 1945. Picture on top depicts Jewish settlers, probably from a kibbutz youth group, marching. Bottom picture depicts a group of Palestinian children. Figure 5: Letter by Jack Manier, alongside two other letters, reprinted in Dayton Daily News, August 6, 1958, in which he advances Christian Zionist arguments to attack Thompson’s views Figure 6: Letter celebrating the end of Thompson’s column in the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, August 29, 1958 4 Acronyms AFME: American Friends of the Middle East AZC: American Zionist Council AJC: American Jewish Council BDS: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions CJP: Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land HELP: Holy Land Emergency Liaison Program INS: International News Service 5 Introduction “In the words of the American foreign correspondent Dorothy Thompson: ‘It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.’”2 —President Barack Obama, 2015 During the 2015 White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Obama addressed the American press corps in the room and quoted American journalist Dorothy Thompson to remind them of the true purpose the press played in defending American liberty. The irony of the situation went undetected by most people present in the room and by viewers at home.3 By citing Thompson as an example, Obama recognized her legacy, but like much of the scholarship that has focused on Thompson’s life, he ignored the realities of what ended her career. Thompson, whose writing earned her recognition as one of the most important and influential journalists of her time, retired in 1958 after facing over a decade of ongoing public and private attacks for her views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which included accusations that her critiques of Israel were driven by antisemitism. Prior to focusing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the post-WWII era, Thompson enjoyed a notable amount of success as a journalist and a radio broadcaster. She rose in prominence during the Second World War for her candid and brave news coverage. Her critical anti-Nazi reporting led to her expulsion from Germany in 1934—at Hitler’s request—making her the first American reporter to be deported from Germany. Upon her return to the United States, Thompson was hailed as a national hero and compared to none other than eleanor Roosevelt herself, and her 2 C-SPAN, “President Obama complete remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 22:09, April 25, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6d06ALBVA&feature=emb_title. 3 Gil Maguire, "Obama's Role Model to Journalists - Dorothy Thompson - Turned against Zionism and Was Silenced," Mondoweiss, April 29, 2015, https://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/journalists-thompson-silenced/. 6 career as a political journalist took off.4 In addition to her journalism, she would also become well- known for her political commentary. In 1936, Thompson was hired as a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune and was granted the freedom to cover any topic of her choosing and benefited from the popularity that came with vast syndication. That year, she was also hired by NBC radio to deliver a weekly broadcast offering her political commentary on current events. The following year, she would be hired to write a monthly column for the Ladies Home Journal, providing her access to millions more readers. Thompson’s devotion to human rights, freedom of speech, and democracy characterized her reporting style and pushed her towards reporting on political affairs that focused on these issues. The political nature of her commentary, which colored most of what she reported on, made her a controversial figure from the start of her career, however, Thompson continued to cultivate her reputation as an honest and unbiased newswoman during World War II. Her career helped her establish a strong network of friendships with important figures inside and outside of the United States, which aided in cementing her reputation as a first-class journalist and increased her influence on American public opinion.5 By 1939, she was famous enough to appear on the cover 4 “The Press: Cartwheel Girl,” Time, June 12, 1939. 5 Amongst notable figures, Thompson developed a close relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who sought Thompson’s expertise in political analysis. See “Biographical History,” in Dorothy Thompson Papers: An Inventory oF Her Papers at Syracuse University, 3. https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/t/thompson_d.htm. Dorothy Thompson Papers, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Hereafter cited as Thompson Papers. 7 of Time magazine, and by 1943, according to The Gazette, Thompson enjoyed a daily readership of ten million readers.6 Figure 1: “Cartwheel Girl,” Dorothy Thompson on the Cover of Time, June 12, 1939.7 6 “10,000,000 Daily Read Dorothy Thompson,” The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada) March 20, 1943, 11. 7 “Cartwheel Girl,” Dorothy Thompson on the Cover of Time, June 12, 1939, Cover Credit: Peter A. Nyholm, Time. Accessed from http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601390612,00.html 8 Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Thompson directed some of her political commentary to the issue of Zionism. Thompson’s time as a foreign correspondent in europe exposed her to the plight of european Jews and pushed her to speak in favor of the Zionist cause. During this period, Thompson was one of the strongest supporters of Zionism in the United States, publicly advocating her support in her columns that “Jews deserve and need Palestine.”8 She continuously contributed to a number of Jewish platforms such as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Daily Bulletin as the American voice fighting for Jewish rights.9 Her advocacy on behalf of Zionism during the war period, and especially after the realities of the Holocaust came to light, gained her the support of many American Zionists.10 Thompson used her own platforms, including her “On the Record” column, which was syndicated to newspapers across the country, to bring attention to the Jewish refugee crisis that occurred as a result of Nazi policies during the Second World War and to advocate for the Jewish right to a homeland in Palestine. The wide acceptance of Zionism among many Americans, but notably American Jews, gained ground following the Second World War. Before World War II, many American Jews had been ambivalent about the project.11 The unfolding of the Holocaust and the terrible realities of the terror that european Jews had endured throughout the 1930s and 1940s altered many American Jews’ relationship to Zionism.12 After the war, many American Jews began to politically and financially back Zionism and Zionist organizations in the United States.13 The most radical 8 Cited in Carl Hermann Voss and David A. Rausch, “American Christians and Israel, 1948-1988,” American Jewish Archives, 40:1 (1988): 48. 9 “Dorothy Thompson Next Sunday,” Daily Bulletin, April 30, 1933, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Online Archives. https://www.jta.org/1933/04/30/archive/dorothy-thompson-next-sunday 10 This included many of the Jewish readers of the New York Post, which carried her column beginning in 1941. Lynn D. Gordon, “Why Dorothy Thompson Lost Her Job: Political Columnists and the Press Wars of the 1930s and 1940s,” History of Education Quarterly, 34:3 (1994): 282. 11 Steven T. Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love AFFair with Israel (Brandeis: Brandeis University Press, 2001), 8-10. 12 Ibid., 16. 13 Ibid.,
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