Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 36

to be removed in the interests of the movement's purity and legality. After careful consideration, the Executive published on March 7th, 1934, the following statement : " In reply to numerous enquiries, the Executive of the Zionist Organisation desire to state the following : 1. In pursuance to the verdict of the Zionist Court of Honour of January 5th, 1933, and in conformity with the actual facts, the Separate Union of the Zionist-Revisionists must be regarded as dissolved and non-existent. 2. No Zionist group, party or faction has the right to be regarded as a ' Separate Union of Zionist-Revisionists ' or so to style itself. 3. The ' World Union of Zionist-Revisionists ' is, as is generally known, a body outside the Zionist Organisation, which has no legal status within the Organisation. 4. The rights of Zionists holding Revisionist or similar views within the Zionist Organisation and its affiliated bodies are not affected thereby." 6. This statement was communicated to the General Council at its meeting in March, 1934. Both the Revisionists as well as the representatives of the Jewish State Party submitted formal motions against this statement at the meeting, whereupon the General Council, in a series of resolutions, rejected the motion of both parties for the rescission of the resolution of the "Executive. The dissolution of the Separate Union of Zionist Revisionists was thus finally declared. B.—The Petition Movement. 1. On January 1st, 1934, the World Union of Zionist- Revisionists launched a " petition movement " by publishing in the press a letter which it had addressed to the French Government and to the diplomatic representatives of various States in Paris and in which it announced a " decisive move against the policy of the Mandatory bureaucracy.' This step, which constituted a glaring breach of the resolutions of the 18th Congress concerning Zionist discipline and the political prerogative of the Executive, was taken without any consultation with the Executive whatever. The Executive communicated this fact to the Zionist Federations and Separate Unions by circular dated January 16th, in which it stated that it regarded such a campaign at the present time as inexpedient and harmful, and instructed individual Zionists and Zionist bodies to abstain from any participation therein, in accordance with the resolutions of Congress. This brief communication was followed on January 23rd by a more explicit statement of the Executive, which, .after expressing disapproval of the action of the Revisionists, went on to say : The Jewish Agency is the only body which is recognised in the Mandate as representing Jewish interests in regard to the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. The Jewish Agency alone is entitled to conduct Jewish policy in relation to the Mandatory Power, and no other body can claim the right to act politically in this 36