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August, 1945
Brandeis defended in a losing fight in 1921.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Dixon, like a great many other well'meaning people is in the wrong camp. For he ends his article with a plea to which I, as an anti'Zionist might subscribe. He wishes Palestine to be open for "all Jews who wish to go there . . . so that it may eventually become a democratic commonwealth ..."
I do not believe the second wish is conditioned by the first. Nor do I believe that Mr. Dixon, as a radio commentator, has used very explicit language stating his first wish. For no country, anywhere, has unrc stricted immigration and it is incoH' ceivable that so small a country as Palestine should be able econom' ically, sociologically and politically to sustain unrestricted immigration. Nor do I believe that Mr. Dixon meant that the future immigrants to Palestine should be exclusively Jews. If I have not taken liberty with his closing statement he may mean therefore that within the economic and political capacity of Palestine to absorb immigrants, Jews should be free to take advantage of such immigration opportunities. They should certainly not be discriminated against, as Jews, as in the present White Paper. And when, in the opinion of any im' partial commission of the future United Nations organization, the present population of Palestine and its future immigrants are ready for self 'government, it should be granted.
For Palestine is a part of this "one world" and its citizens' religion should not be a matter of qualification for, or in, its type of government. The era of the alliance of Church and state is ended. To speak of Palestine or any other country's government, in terms of "Jewish" or "Moslem," using those qualifications as political yardsticks or designations, is archaic. Anti'Zionists oppose Zionism because it would revive that anachronism.
Finally, anti-Jewish nationalists, both Jews and Christians, oppose Zionism because over and above the political formula for Palestine they believe they have a better program for men and women of Jewish faith, most of whom live now and v/ill continue to live as nationals of the countries in which they live, outside of Palestine.
Anti-Jewish nationalists believe in a program of integration for Jews. That is to say they seek to encourage Jews to integrate their lives completely into the societies in which they live, enjoying by virtue of freedom of religion, whatever difference their consciences elect in their faith. Instead of "strengthening and fostering Jewish national sentiment and consciousness" anti-Zionist Jews seek to strengthen the Jew's sense of belonging and security and "at homcness" in the country in which he lives.
And to do this, we anti-Zionists of both Jewish and Christian faiths need the help and fellowship of all liberal men who see in the history of