Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 37

domain on behalf of the Jewish people. The Revisionist Union cannot by any means arrogate this right to itself, and the Executive considers it necessary to emphasise that the petition movement does not in any way find the support or approval of the Zionist authorities. This independent step constitutes a challenge to the resolutions of the last Zionist Congress and is consequently in contradiction to the constitution of the Zionist Organisation. . . . The Jewish Agency is constantly at pains to safeguard the rights of the Jewish people in regard to Palestine. All its energies are directed towards ensuring the fulfilment of the solemn promise made in the Mandate to the Jewish people as well as of the obligations arising out of that promise. . . . The independent step of the Revisionist Union that has been announced aims at undermining this policy, and so far from being of any real political value, this step can only injure the interests of the Jewish National Home. The Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency are confident that Zionists and Jews will not allow themselves to be misled by empty demonstrative gestures and call upon them to continue their constructive endeavours for the upbuilding of Palestine. 8. Subsequently the Executive received a letter from the World Union dated January 19th, 1934, in which it was notified in general terms of the launching of the petition movement, whereupon the Executive communicated its standpoint to the World Union in a letter dated February 1st, 1934, as follows : We should again like to place on record explicitly that this petition has been decided upon by you and put into execution without the approval, nay, even without any previous communication with the Executive. It must have been clear to you that you, by your independent action, have committed an infringement of the political prerogative of the Executive. We reserve to ourselves the right, in co-operation with the qualified authorities of the movement, to take all steps that appear necessary for safeguarding the unity of political action and the discipline of the Zionist Organisation. 9. On April 30th, 1934, the Revisionists of Palestine addressed a petition to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, to which a negative reply was made by the Mandates Commission in November, 1934, to which reference is made in the Political Report. This extraordinarily injurious step of the Revisionists was unanimously condemned by the whole of the Zionist public and press. C.—Brüh Trumpeldor. 10. When the Palestine Government in October, 1933, granted 5,500 Labour Certificates for the half-year period until March, 1934, the Revisionists ordered the boycott of these certificates. In connection therewith the Brith Trumpeldor (Betar), a youth organisation recognised by the 14th Congress as a Zionist Haluz Union for training and immigration, and affiliated to the Revisionists, issued a secret circular No. 60, in which, on the one hand, it forbade its members under the penalty of expulsion to apply to the authorities of the Jewish Agency for certificates, but, on the other hand, announced that it had been made possible to 37