What is the money used for? Mr. O. E. d’Avigdor Goldsmid, President of the Jewish Board of Deputies and of the British section of the Jewish Agency, asked in opening the twelfth annual Jewish National Fund Bazaar at the Whitechapel Art Gallery last night. It is used, he went on, for the purchase of land on which our co-religionists are to build their houses and live. That land is purchased, he said, without inflicting any injustice on the Arab population in any shape or form. After all, we who for centuries have been the sufferers of injustice at the hands of practically every people of the world, we should be the last to inflict any injustice on any people wherever they happen to be. Therefore I feel certain that the work is being done in the interest of all settlers of that country. It is going to make an opportunity for more settlers to come.
The Bazaars have a great tradition behind them, Mr. Goldsmid said, as well as having the great duty thrust upon them of providing the means of carrying on the work of land settlement in Palestine. Last year £1,300 was raised, and he hoped that that amount would be exceeded on this occasion.
British Jewry started from Aldgate and the East And, said Mr. Cyril Q. Benriques, who was one of the experts of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission and who presided at the gathering, and it is fitting that Aldgate and the East End should be the scene of the great annual function which is to help the great ideal of all Jewry.
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