April 3rd, 1925.
LORD BALFOUR’s visit to the Holy Land is a deplorable farce. He has travelled, well guarded, through sullen villages and empty streets, from one Jewish colony to another, ignoring facts and making speeches that indicate that he thinks the Holy Land is already a Jewish country and that the Moslem and the Christian populations do not exist. He is living with Jews at Government House. He apparently sees no one but Jews and a few English Government officials. We have received a cable from the President of the Moslem Christian Committee assuring us that the whole of the non-Jewish people of Palestine believe that the British pro-Zionist policy is certain to bring ultimate ruin to them, and protesting against the immigration into Palestine from the ghettoes of Poland and Germany. The messages from the special newspaper correspondents in Jerusalem emphasize the general resentment of Lord Balfour’s visit and of the policy for which he is responsible. Rich Jews may charter a special liner to journey from New York for a brief visit to the land of their fathers, but Palestine is not their land. Despite the heavily subsidized immigration of the last eight years, the proportion of Christians, and Moslems, both the same race, to Jews is at least five to one. We have considerable sympathy with their opposition to Zionism, and remembering how their protests have been consistently ignored, we consider that the Palestinians are behaving with most admirable restraint.
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