Quotation from Yitzhak Gruenbaum “Let them say that I am anti-Semitic” — Jan. 18 1943
Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency during World War II, addressing the Zionist Executive Committee in response to Rabbi Ishe Meir Levin d'Agudat Yisrael.
Author :
- Gruenbaum, Yitzhak (1879-1970) ( 3 quotations )
- Antisemitism is not our problem ( 23 quotations )
- The fate of the Jews of Europe is not our problem ( 24 quotations )
- The opinion of others does not count ( 24 quotations )
- National (Zionist) interest first and foremost ( 31 quotations )
" Let them say that I am anti-Semitic....Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate of a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act. "
Yitzhak Gruenbaum and Others at the Zionist Executive Committee; Gruenbaum, Days of Destruction , p.68.
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