Abstract

The Jews-A Nation Trapped

The Jewish world is stirred to its depths. From the Baltic to the Pacific it reverberates with protests and resounds with denunciations. The whole of that unique, invisible empire of people without any one country, yet scattered over every land upon the face of the earth is in upheaval. The protest is against the action of the British government in suspending Jewish immigration into Palestine and the blow which this action has dealt the entire project of the establishment of a Jewish national home. But anyone who is more than superficially acquainted with Jewish life as a whole and not alone with some single manifestation of it knows that this does not tell the complete story. No action of such a kind could arouse a people inured to suffering and accustomed to disappointment. The Jewish national aspirations in Palestine are not by any means universally shared by the Jewish people.