The manner in which the Palestine immigration certificates allocated to Poland have been distributed by the Polish Palestine Office has caused a great deal of dissatisfaction among the Polish Mizrachists and the Revisionists. The Mizrachi representative in the Palestine office has resigned, and the Revisionists are threatening to stop working for the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod. The Revisionists are demanding that the Palestine office should be reorganised in accordance with the decision of the last Zionist Congress.
The Mizrachi complains that although ex-Deputy Farbstein had made special efforts to obtain 275 certificates for middle-class settlers, merchants, small industrialists and artisans, and about 200 of these should have gone to Poland the majority groups represented in the Polish Palestine Immigration office have given 84 per cent of the certificates allocated to Poland to Haluzim. The Revisionists complain that though they have over 40,000 organised members in Poland, hundreds of whom want to emigrate to Palestine, only 4 per cent of the certificates have been allocated to them.
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