CHRISTIAN CROSSES AT JERUSALEM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
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SIR,—I deeply regret that Archdeacon Potter,on the authorityof certain unnamed persons, should declare that "the Zionists in Jetusalena are objecting to the crosses on our soldiers' graves
. because they are seen as you approach the site fixed for the new Zionist College." Since the British occupation of Jeru- salem I have paid repeated and lengthy visits to Palestine, and in my capacity as President of the Zionist Commission, a Zionist leader; and a founder of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, I am fully and ditlectly informed an to Zionist thought and
sentiment and action in and outside Palestine. There is no word of truth in the charge to which Archdeacon Potter has given currency. In the Military Cemetery on the Mount of Olives Jewish soldiers lie with their Christian comrades, and the Mogen David rises above their graves as the Cross above Christian graves. This association is a source of pride to all Jews, for whom the whole cemetery is holy ground. Zionists are second to none in honouring the British dead whose lives were given for the freeing of Palestine, and they repudiate with indignation any suggestion of ingratitude or sectarian in- tolerance in respect of them. I cannot but express my astonish- ment that Archdeacon Potter should, without personal investi- gation, have lent the weight of his office to so dishonouring a
calumny.—I am, Sir, S:c., CH. WEIZNANN. The Zionist Organization, 77 Great Russell Street, W.C. 1.
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