Letters to the United Nations

Prior to the recognition of the so-called "state of Israel" by the United Nations in 1948, Orthodox Rabbis in Jerusalem, the United States, and Canada issued pleas to the U.N. Security Council and the Commission on Palestine opposing the creation of a state in Holy Land and offering compromises and solutions.

These documents have been reproduced here. Copies of the original documents are on file and can be obtained from the United Nations Library and Archives.

• And For the Sake of Jerusalem I Shall Not Remain Silent
• The Question of Jerusalem by Chief Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
  of the Orthodox Jewish Community of Jerusalem
• Statement to the UN Special Committee on Palestine, July 1947
• Letter to the UN Secretary General, November 1947
• Petition to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 18 July 1949
• Letter to the UN Secretary General, "Zionism is not Judaism" 10 November 1975 (Adobe PDF)
• Letter to the UN Security Council concerning the Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Effecting Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 15 Sept 1981