Meanwhile, the German issue was brought squarely before the Congress in the third day of its sessions here yesterday, when Meier Grossman, leader of the Jewish State Party, dissident Revisionist group, demanded in the general debate that the Congress sanction the boycott against Nazi Germany and help increase the isolation of the Third Reich because of its persecutions against Jews.
Emphasizing that since the last Congress two years ago, the brutalities and persecutions perpetrated against the Jews in Hitler Germany have assumed unheard of proportions, he declared that it is the duty of the Zionist Congress to voice its militant protest.
Grossman also criticized severely the present Zionist Executive. Interrupted frequently as he spoke, he declared that “the Executive cannot claim credit because a generation of Jews have been driven to Zionism and Palestine by Hitler.”
The 100,000 Jews who have entered Palestine in the last two years have not increased Jewish influence in the country, he said, citing as an example the fact that the police force in Tel Aviv, the all-Jewish city, is made up mainly of English bobbies.
The Executive’s political achievements were also minimized by Grossman, as he charged it with failure to check the desertion of Jewish labor from the colonies to the cities where wages are higher.
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