Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “An immigration en masse would lower the general cultural standard” — 1913

Then director in Palestine of the colonization financed by the Zionist Organization, future director of the Jewish Agency, expressing his hostility to non-Ashkenazi Jews.

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But the spiritual and intellectual status of these Jews is so low that an immigration en masse would lower the general cultural standard of the Jews in Palestine and would be bad from several points of view

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Arthur Ruppin, The Jews of Today (1913). Cited by Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, Verso, p. 263.

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