Quotation from Yitzhak Gruenbaum “By bringing Yemenites, 70% of whom are sick, we are doing no good” — Jul. 1949
Member of the Knesset, during the debate on the emigration of Yemeni Jews, in a speech mimicking the Nazi discourse on "lice-bitten Jews".
Author :
- Gruenbaum, Yitzhak (1879-1970) ( 3 quotations )
- Contempt for non-Ashkenaki Jews ( 18 quotations )
" Why do we have to put an end to the Yemen Diaspora and bring over people who are more harm than use? By bringing Yemenites, 70% of whom are sick, we are doing no good to anybody. We are harming them by bringing them into an alien environment where they will degenerate. Can we withstand an immigration of which 70% are sick? "
Tom Segev, 1949, The First Israelis , Owl Books, 1998, p. 185.
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