The Communist Party’s leading body issued this statement in response to growing Zionist paramilitary violence against the indigenous, largely peasant, Arab population, anti-Zionist Jews such as Jacob Israël de Haan assassinated by Haganah in 1924, and assaults on leftists by groups like Ben Gurion’s Ahduth Haavodah, forerunner of today’s Labor Party, which attempted to physically drive the Palestinian Communist Party out of the Jewish workers movement.

‘The Terror in Palestine’ Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America from the Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 66. March 28, 1925.

To the American working class:

The Zionists, assisted energetically by the Zionist socialist party, have imperialism, is carrying’ out horrible persecutions of the Arabian peasantry and the members of the Communist Party of Palestine, the staunchest defender of the workers and peasants of Palestine.

The Zionists, assisted energetically by the Zionist socialist party, have started a deliberate campaign with the object of exterminating the Arabs and colonizing the ancient homes of these people with members of their organization. In this they carry out the policy of the British government which fears the rise of a movement for Arabian Independence and encourages and finances the Zionist organization in their war on the Arabian peasantry.

Last December the Zionists precipitated a bloody conflict with the peasantry and since that time have arrested and beaten many peasants and the Communists who exposed the encounter as part of a deliberate plot to provoke insurrection that was to be put down mercilessly by British troops.

The Zionists have instituted a blacklist of Communists and driven them from their jobs and small farm holdings.

The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America calls the attention of the American working class to these outrages occurring in the name of self-determination of small nations.

It reminds them that the same persecutions have been carried under British Imperialist auspices in Ireland, India, Egypt and other British colonies.

It calls to the attention of Jewish masses in America particularly the crimes committed against the poor peasants of Arabia and the Communist Party of Palestine in the name of Jewish liberation. It calls upon them to repudiate these instruments of British imperialist tyranny, to denounce the criminals in the most emphatic manner and rally to the aid of the workers and poor peasants of Palestine, to hold mass meetings and protest the outrages against the revolutionary section of the workers of Palestine, the Communists, to put a stop to the cruel and Inhuman practices of those who speak in the name of Zionism.

Signed: Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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