THE MACCABAEAN
A Monthly Magazine under the supervision of the Federation of American Zionists. Edited by LOUIS LIPSKY
EDITORIAL PAGES
THE anti-Semitic movement in Germany, declares a hasty Jewish weekly, no longer has any significance, although the number of anti-Semites in Parliament has increased, and evidence is forthcoming from week to week that anti-Jewish feeling is growing. Of course, this has absolutely no significance, or value, since Texas has bloomed, in a night, as the refuge of all who may find the Goluth uncomfortable.
ZIONIST TACTICS IN RUSSIA.
RUSSIAN Zionists seem to be unanimous as to the methods to be pursued in the forcing of the revolution in Russia. The Empire must be broken up, and in its stead is to be formed a federation of nationalities. In order to secure Jewish rights, they too must be organized on a national platform, prepared to fight for their group rights in every step taken in the revolution. Mere passive reliance on other nationalities will prove fatal to Jewish claims. That such ideas are not necessarily Zionistic is shown in the action of non-Zionists, who have joined hands with Zionists in these demands.
The Zionist must not, however, overlook one thing: Zionism must not be set aside, or weakened, for any length of time, no matter how brief, for the sake of the success of the Russian revolution. Zionism is the coloring of the Jewish demands. Its principles are essential for the attainment of Jewish equality, but all the strength of Zionists must not be thrown into the revolution. They are part of an international movement whose aim is the establishment of a legally assured home in Palestine, and as a corollary of that aim, the consciousness of
every Jew must be aroused and developed in order to evolve Jewish nationalists for the peopling of the home of the future nation. We are not prepared to leave our fighters in Russia, nor are we anxious to pave the way for the assimilation of Jews with Russian barbarism or culture. Our Heroes in Russia are there to fight the battles of the Jews, and they must not forget that the Jewish nation claims them eternally as its own.
Every issue in Russia must center, so far as the Jews are concerned in the Jewish question. Gershrunis may abandon their people in order to inspire Russian martyrdom for freedom, but true Jewish patriots should have in view only the future of the Jewish nation.
THE BIG PROGRAM.
What Mr. De Haas alluded to last mouth as tlıe Big Program, presents a phase of Zionist thought which, we believe, is never actually out of the mind of the far-seeing Zionist. It ıs folly to think that our present tacties, the effort to place Jews on the soil of Pa:estine, ean continue for any great legth of time. The trend Palestine- ward is bound, however, to grow until it is checked by some power beyond our control.
The activity in Palestine is a response to actual conditions. Zionists are not so blind as not to give weight to those developments that influence Jewish activity. The pogroms have created a great deal of the present sentiment in favor of immediate settlement of Palestine; their cessation may reduce tlıat sentiment to a great extent. What Zionism did was to utilize immediate conditions for the precipitation of Jews into Palestine. Tt is all ın the direction of ultimate vietory. Nothing that strengthens Jewish consciousness and love for Pa:estine has been neglected.
With the diminution of Palestine activity which ıs almost certain to come. what then? Why, the return to favor in the movement of the Big Program; that is, the program of diplomatie adjustment of Jewish demands with the conditions as they are in circles that ho.d Palestine in their governmental power. Palestine colon-