The Communist Party in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba),British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 960. Chapter XXIII: Section 2: The Jewish Political Parties: D.

CHAPTER XXIII.

42. The Revisionists are an extreme right wing party, aiming at the early establishment of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan as a Jewish State on nationalist principles. It is in opposition to the world Zionist movement as represented by the• Zionist Organisation and Congress, from which it seceded in 1935 to form its own world organization which it calls the New Zionist Organization. It condemns the approach to politics of Dr. Weizmann and the Zionist majority to which it attributes reverses to Zionist policy in the past two decades. While sympathizing with the Biltmore Programme as formulated, it has not adopted it on the ground that it fears that Dr. Weizmann and the Executive do not seriously intend to fight for its total realisation. No precise figures can be quoted for the numerical strength of the movement. since it has taken no part in any recent elections to general Zionist bodies. It may, however, be mentioned, as an indication, that some 4,000 votes were registered at elections to an all-Palestine conference of Revisionist organizations which took place in October, 1943. Its full strength may be between six and eight thousand. Dr. A. Altman, Dr. F. Danziger and Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl are the leading figures. Its party organ is Hamashkif, a daily.

The party has organised a National Labour Union opposed to socialist principles; The Union has limited influence. The party has an active and vocal youth organization known as Brit Tmmpeldor or Betar. The Jewish terrorist organisations, the Trgnn Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and the Stern Group, derived from the Revisionist party.

43. The Jewish State Party separated in 1933 from the Revisionists, but maintains practically the same political tenets. It is distinguished from the Revisionists mainly by its participation in the world Zionist movement and the world Zionist Congress, the majority rule of which it accepts. The headquarters of the party are in Jerusalem; party organisations exist in the U.S.A., South Africa, and Great Britain. At the last elections to the Elected Assembly the party polled l,'[07 votes, or less than 1 % of the total.

D. The Communist Party.

44. Since its inception the Palestine Communist Party has been opposed to Zionism; it has never attained any appreciable strength. Until the abolition of the Communist International it combined Arab and Jewish members; when all communist parties were reconstituted on national lines, the Palestine Communist Party established separate organisations for its activities among Jews and Arabs. The Jewish sector, while voicing anti-Zionist principles,

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