Zionist--Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute the Jewish People Nationality Entity and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law
![handle is hein.journals/gwlr32 and id is 993 raw text is: THE ZIONIST-ISRAEL JURIDICAL CLAIMS
TO CONSTITUTE THE JEWISH PEOPLE
NATIONALITY ENTITY AND TO CONFER
MEMBERSHIP IN IT: APPRAISAL IN
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
W. T. Mallison, Jr.*
[T]he connection between the Jewish people and the State of
Israel constitutes an integral part of the law of nations .... The
Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate given by the League
of Nations to Great Britain constituted an international recogni-
tion of the Jewish people....
-The Eichmann Trial Judgment (1961)1
Most true is the saying, that all things are uncertain the moment
men depart from law.
-Hugo Grotius
(writing in 1625)2
Professor of Law, The George Washington University.
The writer expresses his appreciation to W. Theodore Pierson, Jr., Associate
Editor of The George Washington Law Review, for assistance in this study which
is part of a more comprehensive one concerning juridical problems arising from
Zionist-Israel claims in public law.
The writer has served, from time to time, as consultant to the American Council
for Judaism, a national organization of Americans of Jewish religious faith. The
letterhead of its National Office states, in part: The Council affirms that nationality
and religion are separate and distinct; that no Jew or group of Jews can speak for
all American Jews; that Israel is the 'homeland' of its own citizens only, and not
of all Jews.
The analyses and conclusions in the present study are those of the writer alone.
1 The Attorney-General of the Government of Israel v. Adolf, the son of Karl
Adolf Eichmann, Criminal Case No. 40/61, District Court of Jerusalem, Israel, Dec.
11-12, 1961, affirmed, Criminal Appeal No. 336/61 Supreme Court of Israel, May 29,
1962.
2Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, 2 Classics of International Law, Prolegomena 17
(Scott ed., Kelsey transl. 1925).
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