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The Zionist Movement Labor Zionism Palestine Realities University of Central Florida STARS PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements 1-1-1936 Zionism today: The Zionist movement Labor Zionism Palestine realities. Questions and answers. P. Novik Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Book is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Novik, P., "Zionism today: The Zionist movement Labor Zionism Palestine realities. Questions and answers." (1936). PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. 669. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism/669 ZIONISM TODAY The Zionist Movement Labor Zionism Answers C TEN C ENTS- 4 ,m. Pzablds~bl( Tm J-H BUR0 OF THE CEHTlUL (XIMMM OF T3E WMIIBUNIST PAEm OF TMl U, 8. A. New York, 1986 ZIONISM TODAY An analysis of the proceedings of the nineteenth Zionist World Congrws heId in Lucerne, Switzerland, August 20-27, 1936, and a review of present conditions in Palestine. By PAUL NOVICK lH[E head of the politid department of the Zionist TExecutive Committee in Jerusalem and the actual ldtr of the Zionist World organization, David BenGurion, stated in his report for the executive committee at the 19th Zionist Congress in Luzefne : "The year 1933 will assume a distinctive place in our history, similar to 1897 and 1917. In this year took pIxe fundamental changes in the position of the Jewish people. Their existence in the Diaspora was definitely endangered." (Krngressst?iturtg, oflick1 I stenographic organ of the Zionist Congress, No. 3, P- 4.1 Zionism has entered its third epoch. 1897-1917-1933. Zionism has staked its cards on the endangered existence of the Jews in the "Diaspa," that is the existence of Jews in all laads other than Palestine. This view is not entirely new. Since 1897 Zionism has thrived on persecution in the "Dhpora!' Its growth was retarded whenever the Jewish masses fought for im- provement in their respective countries. In the "epoch" of 1897 (Herd Zionism) when Zionism bad its major activities on the six million Jews of old Russia, land of revolutionary ferment, the movement made comparatively We headway. The expected "exodus" to Palestine did not materialize. Zionism was still less successful in the 1917 epoch (Balfour DecSaration) when the magnitude of the Wbu moluhn gave impetus to a revolutionary up 1 mgc not only thmughwt Europe but the entire world. Ttrt Jews of Rush, Poland and other countries thought fit& Of to &tn thm &rouPg tn- thusiastic far the Wmr &dadon (an enthudam often nnifidslly shhmd) Rinecd no desire to ga The era . been 1917 and, idwive (with thc amption of one year, fw, dw relatively small migration to Palestine, I HOW&? dim the Great Crash and its prolonged world-wide capbht depression, its economic extermination ; and pti&Iy since the advent of Hitltrism ip -y, the qmh of "upbuilding" and "prosperity," the third epoch of Zionism began. One d the delegatat of thc semi-fascist Judenstaat Party, which is strongly opposed to the Histadruth (Palestine Emh labar movrmentq as wdas Pde-Zion from various countries), engineer Strueker characterized this epoch as foh:"It was said here," he stated from the platform of the Lucerne Congress, "that history will have something to say about the role of Zionism undct. the rrrlc of the , pesrng exec&ic committee." (That is, different from what delcgatcs of the Judenstaat Party were saying.) "But there it will read: 'Under the rule of Ad4 Hider' . .JP Hitlcr was- quite ohmentioned at the 19th Zionist Gmgrcss, although vqseldom attacked. The Judenstaat delegates on two occasions shouted derisively in thc dixec- tion of the Histadruth delegates: "Heil Hider? The His- tadruth delegates answered in kind, shouting towards tbt Judenstaat people: "Schusmig agents" (&, agtnts of ItalsAustrian fascism). This is the' manner in which W wings voiced their sentiments in the epoch of 1933, The "lefty' delegate, heni, from the benches of the Histadruth, pidy ddmd: "We have nothing to be ashamed of the fact that we used the persecutian of the Jews in Germany for the upbuilding of Palestine. That is how our sages and lders of old have taught us . , to make use of the catastrophes of the Jewish pophtim in the Diaspra for upbuilding." (Kongressssifung NO. 5, p. 9.) We heard simiIar views from the 'Wational Poet," H. N. Bialik, a long time More. "NtIexism,in the last analysis, is a blessing for our people," he stated in an interview printed in the New York Jewish Mwnikg lomd of kmber3, 1933. The Histadruth delegatq hni, (from the "extreme left" Hashomer Hatzogir) expressed it with more subtility: "the sages of old told us to build on carastrophes . .a¶ The catastrophes brought some results. Still, there wasn't --and there couldn't hyreal joy, the joy of victors and builders. Before the congress convened one of the mtmh of ,,the Zionist WorM Executive, Isaac Greenbaum, in an article in the Warsaw Zionist daily H&t, entitled "'Tmgk ConfIicfi," had soding ominous to say about the sick economy of the Zionist Yishrrb (settlement) of Palatine. I( The owners of orange g~oves," Greenbaurn states, "find themselves in a quandry. In England prices of oranges have fallen -use the market is choked with the fruit. The coming season will be still worse. There will be more fruit. And because of the terrific Ham~~we(heat waves from the desert) which occurred last spring, there will be too many oranges of the kind that cannot be sold in England. The downgrade of the price index of this year has already made itself felt in the orange trade. New groves are not developed. As a result, fewer workers are required, fewer pipes and other articles used. There is an upset in the economic life of the country which may lead to a misis-thmgh the nituatian can k Idid, However, either way the orange in- dustry may develop the economic life of the Iand is frought with bazards that can be avoided only by selling to Germany!' (Hd~tNo. 178.) 1 But here Greenhum sea more btagic conflictr. Pales- tine is made dependable on Nazi trade. "Betwett the interests of Eres Is~a~t the DiaFpom," Greenbaum continues, "a* abyss begins to yaw. The development of Erez Israel imposes sacri- fices on the Jews in the Dkpora, the mtfrom certain sections of the communities in the Diaspora, mtually the reliltquishment of their struggle fw rights. This must lead to capitulation. It may result in democalkation and bring judgment to an un- praedented degree." (My emphasis.) Judgment upon whom? Undoubtedly, Grmnbau is fdof what will happen to Zionism when the Jewish masses in the countries where thy live realize that the inbtrcgts of Zionism rrcn coundcr to theirs. Mr. Green- bawn's article emphasized codiaing interests which be- corn ever sharper in the "third epoch" of Zionism when a number of its leaders openly depend on Jewish pemc~- tions for its growth. Mr. Grecnbaum (who, be it remembered, is a member of the World Zionist Executive Committee) has aprd , the attitude of the Palestine Ykhub which is fearful of the policia of the Zionist leadership, fearful of entanglements with Nazism, as it is fearful of the entanglements with 4 British Imprialism. "An abyss begins to yawn." - -. 2 There was Batland (quack synagogue "phirosophf) in the opening speech of the president (now the honorary president) of the Zionist organizationI Nahum Sokolov. Babuth with a purpose. 6 Here assembled the congress of an organization pre- tending to represent the Jewish nation, no less. But he keynote speech of its president fails even remotely to echo the cry of the Jewish masses against their mediwd persecutors-Hitler, Mng, Gaebbels, Streichcr ! The Executive Committee could have (if it willed) inserted into Sokolov's speech a protest and condemnation against Nazism. It chose, however, to hide behind the Batland of a Sokolov. His tedious excursion into history, his phi- losophizing about the situation of the Jews throughout "all times" merely served to take the place of a definite state- ment on 'the tragic position of the Jews in capitalist coun- tries, particularly in Germany. His talk of "eternal suffer- ings" only served as a "philosophical" cloak in place of the stark realism necessary to face &the problem of the German Jews. Thw who remembered SokoIov's speeches at previous congresses, his attacks on the Soviet Union, no doubt found it difKcuIt to restrain a smile as they listened to his state- ments-the Zionist organization "does not intend to take any position in international political dairs, or to criticize the internal affairs of a given country." . "It is gcn- erally &&cult to orientate oneself in this respect beause European politics is changing its alignments with such g tempo." (Ko~gresszcbtungNo. 2, p. 2.) At the 18th Zionist Congress in Prague, Sokolov was Srorming against the ''destruction of the Hebrew language" Soviet Union, and against the "attacks on the Jewish religion." That time Sokolov displayed an abun- dance of courage. "We cannot permit," he shouted, "the Russian Jewry, the courageous and deserving Russian Jewry, to be struck from the book of the living, nationally and culturally, without any moral consequences." (Koa- $rcss~citz~ngof Prague No. 4, p. 1.) Obviously, the Hebrew language and Jewish religion (that is, if matters were -c5="r .. - exactly as pomaytd by SokoIov) are more im-t to the Zionist ladm than thc Jewish masrsts themsclva who arc now being exterminated in Germany and 0th capi- talist countries.
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