Representatives of every American Jewish group that has at heart the development of Palestine gathered at the Hotel Astor in New York Wednesday evening to make known to the Palestine government, its disappointment at the reduction of immigration certificates and to publish its sense of indignation at the procedure. The meeting, in the nature of a joint conference of the American Repressentative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, attracted representatives of all leading Jewish organizations in America.
In a resolution jointly adhered to by these groups the action of the Palestine government in ignoring, in effect, the request for 24,700 immigration certificates for the six months period ending March, 1934, and granting only 20 percent of this quota, was interpreted in the resolution as one that “gravely endangers the very existence and expandsion of many of the agricultural and industrial enterprises.”
It is to be hoped that this American Jewish protest, reiterated by the Jewish protest, reiterated by the Jewish groups of every other nation, will have some effect in the counteracting of the Arab propaganda against Jewish immigration, a propagada to which the British authorities in Palestine seem to be lending so servile an ear that the uninformed observer might almost be justified in concuding that the Mandate for Palestine is being executed, not for the benefit of the Jews of Palestine, but for that of the Arabs.
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