The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Bv MAX BEDACHT.

ary movement is greatest. ms Is
not only so because mistake at a
critical moment is of more serious
consequences than ordinarily; it is
so primarily because in the events
of the class struggle the most cri-
teal moment brings with it the
greatest pressure of subconscious
illusions; the most critical moment
prepares the most favorable ground
for the reawakening of the influ-
ence of bourgeois education to which
everybody was subjected. 1t is pre-
cisely the critical hour in which the
apparatus of bourgeois propaganda
plays every conceivable tune that is
calculated to reawaken old preju-
dices and recreate old illusions.
A glaring example of this is
shown in the attitude of some non
Party writers recently connected
with the Communist Morning Fret
heit." Menachen Boreisha, H. Le-
wick and Abraham Resin declared
"tearfully" that they cannot any
longer cover the revolutionary posi-
ton of the "Freiheit" with their
names. Why? Because innocent
Jewish blood" has been spilled in
Palestine and the "Freiheit" latter
some serious mistakes in the begin
ning) refuses to blow into the horn
of bourgeois propaganda, but raises
the class issue instead.
For centuries the so-called holy
land, because of its Importance on
the commercial road from the west
to the east, has been the coveted
pride of Imperialism. All of the
struggles for the possession of the
holy land from the early battles of
the Mohamedans to the crusades and
to the expedition of Lord Allenby
during the World War were con-
veniently cloaked with religious
phrases and high sounding princi-
pies. But behind these principles
and religious pretentions are con-
cealed economic and imperialist pur-
poses. The religious pretentions
merely supply the means of setting
one against the other to the bene-
fit of the third, to the benefit of
Imperialism. "There is no sane
tuary," wrote Marx in 1854, 'no
chapel, no stone of the church of
the holy sepulchre, that has been
left unturned for the purpose of
constituting a quarrel between the
different Christian communities.
For decades British imperialism
attempted to establish its colonial
rule over Palestine. During the
world war it began to utilize the
Zionist movement for this purpose.
In a declaration issued by Balfour
British Imperialism, first, pro-
nounced the inalienable right of the
Jews to a national state, second,
pronounced British imperialism as
the chosen instrument of god to es-
tablish that Jewish national state,
and, third, pronounced the Arabs of
Palestine as the chosen sacrificial
lambs who had to be shorn of their
belongings in order to make pos
sible the establishment of a Jewish
national state.
1t was clear all along that the
Jewish national state was merely
the convenient cloak for the imper-
ialist aggression of Great Britain
in Palestine. The activities of Bri-
fish imperialism on behalf of the
establishment of this Jewish ma
tional state were not, were never in
tended to be, and will never be, a
Jewish national state in Palestine.
The only tangible result was a Bri-
fish "protectorate." British imper-
ialism alone got what it set out to
get. The Jewish nationalist move
ment, the Zionist movement, not
only lent itself as an excuse for the
establishment of colonial rule of
British imperialism but helped in
the systematic exploitation of the
Arabian masses in Palestine. 1t
helped in and profited by the sys-
tematic appropriation of the masses
of the Arabian peasantry. Together
with the British, the Zionist colon
lists exploit the thus impoverished
Arabian masses as wage-slaves
under the most miserable conditions
imaginable. At the same time,
however, the Jewish Zionist CAPT
talists have no nationalist scruples
against the exploitation Of the poor
Jewish immigrants in Palestine. In
fact, they exploit and feed mutual
religious and racial prejudices of
Jews and Mohammedans so that, to-
gether with the British imperialists,
they can keep wages of both at a
minimum by playing one nationality
against the other.
Against this system of expropria-
ton, exploitation and oppression
the Arabs recently began to revolt.
They rose against British imperial