2025-07-19 21:14 <br/> Tags: #AmericanJewry #EarlyZionism #Lobby #USGov # Lodge-Fish Resolution - The Lodge-Fish Resolution (LFR) was a 1922 US congressional resolution endorsing the British Mandate and as a corollary, the [[Balfour Declaration]]. - The LFR is seen as a US version of the Balfour Declaration, as some lines were borrowed word for word from the Balfour Declaration. - The resolution is named after its congressional sponsors Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Congressman Hamilton Fish III. - The LFR resulted in the legitimization of both US Jewish support for Zionism and the power of Jewish lobbying on the US government. - The LFR is one of the first major lobbying efforts by organized Jewry in the United States. - Major lobbying efforts were undertaken by: - The [[World Zionist Organization]] via [[Chaim Weizmann]] and [[Nahum Sokolow]]. - Rabbi [[Simon Glazer]]. - The [[Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)]] via [[Louis Lipsky]]. ![[image-53.png|515x199]] #### References - “Lodge–Fish Resolution,” _Wikipedia_, last modified July 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodge–Fish_Resolution. - “U.S. Congress Endorses the Balfour Declaration,” _Jewish Virtual Library_, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. - U.S. Congress. _Congressional Record-House_, 67th Cong., 2nd sess., vol. 62, pt. 10 (June 30, 1922). PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1922-pt10-v62/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1922-pt10-v62-1-2.pdf.