The Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council of Palestine, meeting today, denounced the Palestine administration’s hunt for Jews illegally in the country as a “disgrace to any civilized government.”
A resolution adopted by the Council calls on the Jews of Palestine for systematic opposition to the restrictive immigration policy of the government as not consonant with the actual absorptive capacity of the country.
Just prior to the recent Arab disturbances, the Palestine government rejected the request of the Jewish Agency for Palestine for 25,000 immigration certificates for Jews. The Agency had based its request on the labor needs of the country. The government allotted 5,500 certificates for a six months’ period.
Following the riots, the government embarked on a series of stern measures to round up Jewish settlers in the country who had entered illegally. The harshness of the measures and the summary treatment accorded illegal immigrants has created much resentment among the Jewish population.
Twenty-five Oriental Jews, allegedly having entered illegally into the
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