...The Guardian? pro Zionist?... Archived Message
Posted by Si on July 7, 2019, 2:59 pm, in reply to "Zionist arm twisting in the UK - wash, rinse and repeat..."
Michael Adams in, PiN: ...the most influential of these 'gentile Zionists' in the newspaper world was the first and most distinguished of them all, as I learned soon after I had started work as the Middle East correspondent for The Guardian (The Manchester Guardian, as it it still was) in 1956. I was visiting Jerusalem for the first time when I has a thoroughly disconcerting experience. I has an introduction to a distinguished Palestinian, a former mayor of the Arab city, who welcomed me to meet a group of his friends. One of them, who was the principal os a college and a future foreign minister of Jordan, asked me which paper i has come to represent. When I told him, he said gently, 'ah, the Zionist paper'. I was startled and, thinking that perhaps I was having my leg pulled, I smiled and let it pass; but as soon as I got a chance I made some enquiries and discovered what an important contribution The Guardian had made, under its redoubtable editor C. P. Scott, to the early successes of Zionism in Britain. It was Scott who launched Chaim Weizmann, later to be the first President of Israel, into British political society and so started the train of events which led to the Balfour Declaration: which in turn may fairly be called the foundation-stone of the modern State of Israel...pp.68-69, PiN... ...do read on!
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- Zionist arm twisting in the UK - wash, rinse and repeat... - Si July 7, 2019, 2:37 pm
- ...The Guardian? pro Zionist?... - Si July 7, 2019, 2:59 pm
- Re: Zionist arm twisting in the UK - wash, rinse and repeat... - Mary July 7, 2019, 5:47 pm
- Mary, how lovely to see your name here - thanks as ever for the details you offer...nom - Si July 7, 2019, 5:59 pm
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