CLAIM FOR JEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21935, 1 February 1946, Page 3

CLAIM FOR JEWS

PALESTINE HOME

BRITISH-U.S. INQUIRY PROBLEM OF ANTI-SEMITISM LONDON, Jan. 30. “There will be thousands of Jewish suicides throughout the world and thousands of decent youngsters will be turned into desperadoes if Palestine is turned into an Arab State.” said Dr. James Parkes to the British-American committee of inquiry on Palestine. “It is unfair to expect the Jews to cope with the difficulties of antiSemitism because anti-Semitism is a Gentile problem and not a Jewish problem.” The Jewish Fellowship proposed by the United Nations’ Organisation should be responsible for the settlement of homeless European Jews. UNO should guarantee the rights of Jews who wanted to emigrate and resettle, and take effective steps to prevent the deliberate dissemination of anti-Semitic doctrines within the countries of member States.

Colonel Louis Gluckstein. president of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, said that if the two great enlightened nations, Britain and America, could achieve a solution of anti-Semitism, then the problem would at long last be laid to rest.

“It is our duty to rehabilitate physically and mentally the Jews who have suffered rather than to say: “Which do you prefer, Belsen or Palestine?” He added that he thought the best solution was the opening of the gates of the world to the Jew. The AngloJewish Association supported the case for a Palestinian State with extensive immigration to be so developed as to provide a Jewish national home, either with self-government or in association with the British commonwealth.

Mr. Justice Singleton asked why Palestine should be asked to take all the Jewish refugees if other parts of the world did little or nothing.

Mr. L. J. Stein, a member of the Anglo-Jewish Association, said: “We can find no other country willing or capable of taking Jews in large numbers.”