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A reply to Zionism by an Anti-Zionist — who believes that Jews are nationals of the countries in which they live — and not a homeless people.
By ELMER BERGER
I AM an anti'Zionist. That is to say, I am an anti'Jewish'national' ist. There are a number of inaccura' cies and inadequacies in Mr. Stanley Dixon's article, "Land of Promise," pubhshed in the July issue of "Swing." One of the inadequacies was his failure to note that among the opponents of Zionism is a sig' nificant and growing number of Americans of the Jewish faith. There are also a significant number of Americans of Christian faith opposed to Zionism.
These people, anti' Jewish-nationalists, oppose Zionism out of the deep conviction that the designation "Jew" is religious and only religious in meaning. They believe that Jews are nationals of the countries in which they live; Americans, Britons, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Czechs. These are the nationalities of these people. Their religion is Judaism and they are Jews by virtue of that religion and for no other reason.
Believing that, these people, Jews and Christians, oppose Zionism. For Zionism is Jewish nationalism. Here again, Mr. Dixon's article was inadequate. Mr. Justice Brandeis's statement which Mr. Dixon quoted is not Zionism. Brandeis quarreled violently with Zionist party-line ideologists — and Brandeis lost. The official platform of Zionism was laid down in the first Zionist Congress of 1897, to
which Mr. Dixon referred. It declared "the purpose of Zionism is to establish a publicly guaranteed, legally-assured home for the ]ewish pco' pie, in Palestine." It declared further that to realize this purpose Zionism was "to strengthen and foster Jewish national sentiment and consciousness." These purposes, contained in the socalled Basle Program, are still the purposes of Zionism.
Today, they take the specific political form of the Biltmore Platform, formulated at the Biltmore Hotel, New York, in May of 1942, at the most representative convention of American Zionists ever assembled. The Biltmore Platform called for control of Palestinean immigration to be vested exclusively in the Jewish Agency for Palestine. (This sovereign right was demanded despite the fact that Jews constitute only one-third of Palestine's population). The Biltmore Platform further required, that self-government in Palestine be postponed until by such exclusive control of immigration, Jews in Palestine shall achieve a majority. Recently, the Jewish Agency for Palestine went beyond even this artificial procedure of establishing a Jewish majority by demanding of Great Britain that Palestine be declared a Jewish Commonwealth now, despite the fact that Jews still constitute only about onethird of the population.