<Zionist
Organizations.
[The Zionist Organization
of Canada (ZOC) since 1900]
In 1900, after several attempts in pre-Herzl days to
organize a Hovevei Zion group in Montreal, there were
Zionist groups in nine communities. The Zionist Organization
of Canada (ZOC) has been the focus of Zionist interest. It
has been in the main non-political in respect to parties in
Israel, though some individual leaders were partial to the
General Zionists.
Presidents of the ZOC include Clarence *de Sola, 1899-1920;
A.J. *Freiman, 1920-44; Edward E. Gelber, 1949-54; Michael
*Garber, 1956-58; Lawrence Freiman, 1958-62, 1965-67; and
Julius Hayman, 1967.
[Purchase of land in
Palestine by the ZOC]
A notable achievement of the ZOC was its responsibility in
acquiring the *Hepher plain. In 1927 it paid one million
dollars for this 30,000-dunam tract of land in Palestine.
Most factions (col. 108)
of Zionism, for example, Labor Zionists, Revisionists,
Mizrachi, and Po'alei Mizrachi, are represented in Canada.
These groups generally cooperated in matters of Zionist
public relations and other matters of common concern.
In April 1967 the above groups along with Achdut-Avodah,
Canadian Friends of Pioneering Israel (Ha-Shomer
ha-Za'ir-Mapam), and the Canadian Hadassah-Wizo organized
and joined the Federated Zionist Organization of Canada.
[Labor Zionist movement
"Hadassah-Wizo" since 1916: Labor Zionist Order and Jewish
Pioneer women are collecting money for Herzl Israel]
Hadassah-*Wizo was organized in Canada in 1916 and by 1970
had 325 chapters in 70 cities with more than 16,000 members.
The vigorous Labor Zionist movement embraces the Farband
[[Federation]] Labor Zionist Order and the Pioneer Women. It
conducts fund-raising for the Histadrut [[Trade Union in
Palestine since 1920]] and and is financially involved in
institutions of Jewish education that it sponsors.
[Jewish Committees in
Canada for higher education institutions in Herzl Israel]
Israel educational institutions, such as the Technion, the
Maritime League, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew
University, all have committees in various cities dedicated
to their support. The Jewish National Fund is active, and
corporations to aid investment and trade with Israel have
been established.
[No anti-Zionist group in
Canada]
No active anti-Zionist group similar to the *American
Council for Judaism in the United States has been organized
in Canada. The Canadian community always took a positive
attitude to the rebuilding of Palestine and, later, the
State of Israel. See also *Zionism (Canada).> (col. 109)
[[The Herzl racism with the indication that the Arabs can be
driven away as the natives of "America" had been driven
away, is never mentioned, and the expulsion of the
Palestinians also is never mentioned in the Encyclopaedia
Judaica, and the discrimination, expulsion and extermination
of the natives in Canada is also never mentioned in the
Encyclopaedia Judaica]].
^
