Resolution Adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis...Anent the Balfour Declaration

(ZIONISM).

July 4th

Chicago

1918

Endorsed with the names of 19 leaders of the movement.

The American Reform Movement’s resolution against the establishment of a Jewish Homeland. Notably issued on July 4th (clearly emphasizing American ties), seven months following Balfour’s Declaration, the CCAR statement reads, in part: “We are opposed to the idea that Palestine should be considered the home-land of the Jews. Jews in America are part of the American nation. The ideal of the Jew is not the establishment of a Jewish state… We believe that our survival as a people is dependent upon the assertion and the maintenance of our historic religious role and not upon the acceptance of Palestine as a home-land of the Jewish people.”