The synagogues in the new portion of the city of Casablanca, Morocco, are crowded with hundreds of Jewish families who have fled their homes in the old native section under fear of further Moslem attacks, it was reported here today from Oroocco. A number of Jews were hurt and many shops destroyed by Moslem nationalist bands who have attacked the Jews on the pretext that they were pro-French.
Meanwhile, the North African Zionist Federation, holding a conference in Marseilles, has appealed to the Jewish Agency to provide for immediate immigration to Israel of at least 5,000 Jews from Morocco and 1,500 from Tunisia.
(“Why does the Jewish world keep silent when innocent Jews are being murdered in Morocco, Jewish property plundered and Jewish livelihoods ruined#,” Dr. S. Levenberg, representatives of the Jewish Agency in England, asked at a Zionist meeting in Brussels. “Both the Moroccan nationalist movement and the French authorities must be made aware of the fact that the Jewish people will not stand idly by watching the physical attacks on their co-religionists,” he told the audience.)
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