The Denver Jewish news., 1923-11-01
Christian Observer Raps
Israel Zangwill
George w. Seymour. Recent Visitor to
Palestine. Declares No Honest Person
Can Deny Amazing Progress of Jew
ish National Home.

AHu -N~ssVssAss
Israel Zangwill's "anti-Zionistbla~t
Mt the American ewish Congress was
the object of n severe arraignment by
George w. Seymour. special foreign
correspondent of the New York Eve
ming Post. In an address at the New
York University before the Mencrnh
Society of Washington Square. Mr..
Seymour who recently returned from
Palestine where he made n survey of
the sixty odd Zionist colonies. declared
that there WAS no reasonable excuse
for doubting attitude toward the real
izafion of the Jewish Homeland dream
Notwithstanding what any misguided.
misinfOrmed jew or Christian may say
to the country" He asserted that "thc
reported differences between Jews and
Arabs were grossly and wilfully exag-
gcratetl' an lthat 1T is not true that
the political hopes of n welded Jewish
races are In vain.'
"The thirty thousand Jewish
lc burned at the stake of cunningly
phrnsed incendiary talk. particularly
10y one wlic claims to he n friend and
champion of the Jewish Homeland
cause. Mr.. Seymour declared. 'Their
prospects should not he jeopartliZcd by
any great mind corrupted by petty and
haseiess suspicious and prone to exng-
gerate the size Of II pebble 10 that of
n plnnct. One cannot rcpudiate thing
one day and hope to aspcuse 1t sue
oessfully the next. We are bound Ia
respect a difference Of opinion hut not
when it is seemingly designed to he
destructive for personal gain and per
sOnal glory.
Criticism mt this time of Grea;
Britinn's failure to aliot certain terri
tor yor lands to Zicnists is wholly out
OF order and IL apt tn provo injurious
to the Jewish Homeland cause. an
sure that mt the right moment Jews
will get all they seek from the British
Government IL no: great deal more
Ard that moment is no tfar off. The
British are pledged to live mp to the
lctter and spirit Of the Jewish Home
lhnd Charter an dthere should he ne
doubts as to the fullfilmcnt of their
acknowledged obligations to the Jewries
of the world. The British. so far as
know. have never gone back on their
word As for the leaders of the Zionist
Organization they have in the opinion
uf close Christian observer accom-
pl;shed wonders and deserve the high
cst praise for The manner in which they
Obtained the Charter and for the way
they have gone about to lay the founda-
tions OF n Jewish alton"
In another parr of his address Mr..
Seymour said:
No Gne is honest who declares that
a Jewish Nation is not being buiit I'm
Palestine. No one has right to pro
ciaiin that the thirty-thousand Jewish
pioneer who are dedicating their lives
to the attainment of national ideal.
are not going to succeed in their task.
No one should so debaSp himself or his
intellect as to assert that all hope of
n future Jewish state is futile. There
never was more Opportune time for
the political hopes and aspirations OF
a welded Jewish race than now. New
York was not built in a day. so il
stands to reason that the Jewish Home
land cannot be ether. let alone a Jew
ish State
Elsewhere in the address which dealt
largely with what militant Jewisl
wmonnhotd." is doing in Palestine. Mr.
Scymvnr said that 'all one has to dc
to get ut lie truth of the magnificent
results attained by Zionism in Pales
tine is to open ones eyes on visiting
the Holy Land" that is .'if one hasn''
previously been misled by the passion
are o1tpOurings from dis ortcd, Sus
piciOus and childishly alnrmist minds
or IF one hasn't been seduced by mali
cious Near-Enst political and anti-Zion
ist propaganda"