A dark picture of the future of Jews in Germany as he sees it is painted by Nahum Sokolow, president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in an article which appears today in “Ha’Olam.”
The leader of World Zionism terms the Prussian Confiscation Law the greatest historical outrage, and says it is but the beginning of further hardships and difficulties in store for German Jewry. The Jewish world, he states, must be prepared for the possibility of the expulsion of all Jews from Germany. This is a problem with which the elected representatives of World Jewry must now deal. They must discuss the problem of settling at least a part of them in Palestine.
Dr. Sokolow expresses regret that the Jewish press has not adopted a proper criterion for measuring the seriousness of the situation. He points out, while the present Confiscation Law is directed only against East European Jews, 95% of American Jewry as well as 80% of West European Jewry originates in East Europe. If the measure is confined to East European Jews, it is only because of fear of the stronger governments of Western Europe, Dr. Sokolow declared.
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