A huge mass meeting of protest and condemnation of the curtailment of Jewish immigration into Palestine, was held here last night at the Shoreditch town hall, with Lady Erleigh presiding. Thousands of English Jews packed the hall and voiced their indignation against the immigration policy of the Palestine government.
Professor Selig Brodetsky, member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, severely criticized the government of Palestine for granting an utterly inadequate number of immigration certificates and pointed out that, ironically enough, Jewish enterprise was benefitting the Arabs of Transjordania, instead of the Jews. David Ben-Gurion, of the political department of the Jewish Agency, corroborated the statement of Professor Brodetsky, and declared that it would be impossible for the government to expel thousands of Jews already settled in the country in the campaign now going on.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization, and now head of the Zionist committee for the settlement of German Jews in Palestine, urged dignified representations for justice to the government of Palestine.
The noted Zionist leader, whose return to active work for Palestine was hailed by the audience, predicted that the growing city of Haifa, like Alexandria in Egypt, could easily absorb six hundred thousand new inhabitants, and expressed the hope that the newcomers would be Jews. The meeting was under the auspices of the English Zionist Federation.
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