Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948),
an Australian judge and politician, was the ninth Governor General of Australia and the first born in Australia
to occupy that post. He was strongly opposed to Zionism (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Isaacs
; also see Max
Gordon, “Sir Isaac Isaacs”, Heinemann, Adelaide, 1963).
Sir Isaac Isaacs was concerned for the rights of Indigenous Palestinians and supported the British White Paper of 1939 restricting Jewish immigration to the Palestine Mandate and was accordingly vilified by local Australian Zionists, notwithstanding his great eminence. The Balfour Declaration is reproduced here for the context (my emphasis added; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917 ). Foreign Office, Sir Isaac Isaacs, 1946: “The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism." [1]. [1]. Sir Isaac Isaacs, quoted by Wikipedia,”Isaac Isaacs”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Isaacs . |