Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There are some hundred thousand negroes and for those there is no value” — May 20 1936

President of the Zionist Executive, questioned by Arthur Ruppin on the circumstances of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

Author : Thematics :
" The British told us that there are some hundred thousand negroes [kushim in Hebrew] and for those there is no value. "

Weizmann, quoted by Arthur Ruppin in: Yosef Heller, Bama'avak Lamedinah , Jerusalem, 1984, p.140.
Quoted by Nur Masalha in Le droit au retour , Sindbad Actes Sud, p. 21.

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