ABSTRACT
The Jewish and Arab Lobbies in Canada and the UN Partition of Palestine
Eliezer Tauber
This article examines the attempts of Arabs and Jews to influence the Canadian position towards the creation of a Jewish state at the very end of the British mandatory era in Palestine. It argues that Canada was one of the main initiators of the partition plan at the United Nations and that without Canadian mediation the plan would not have been adopted. It then analyzes the role of lobbying, both Jewish and Arab, in this critical Canadian involvement in the partition proposals, showing that while the Zionist efforts met with some success the Arab propaganda campaign met with none at all.
