Jews in Palestine were warned today in a broadcast over the Jewish “resistance” radio to prepare food for ten days, since it is possible that the curfew may be re-imposed by the British military authorities. The broadcast was interpreted as indicating that new disturbances are to be expected.
A nation-wide conference of the Jewish National Fund today issued a manifesto protesting against the regulations which limit land purchases by Jews. The protest charged that the British Government is violating the elementary rights guaranteed under the Palestine Mandate by discriminating between Palestine citizens and placing the Jews in an inferior position, confining them in a pale of settlement, and creating ghetto conditions.
Addressing the conference, Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, revealed that the Palestine Government would not exempt from the land restrictions demobilized Jewish soldiers who are badly in need of land for colonization and housing. Palestine remains the only country where far-reaching measures of racial discrimination against the Jews are still on the statute books and being actively enforced, he pointed out, adding that had the British Labor Government, when in power, stuck to the moral it preached when in opposition, things would not have to come to the present tragic pass.
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