Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Given the massive immigration from the Orient … There are indeed grounds for anxiety” — Sep. 19 1950

Director of the KKL/JNF, expresses in his diary his racist fear of Oriental Jews.

Author : Thematic :
" While I was speaking with Yosef Shprintsak, he expressed anxiety about preserving our cultural standards given the massive immigration from the Orient. There are indeed grounds for anxiety, but what’s the use ? Can we stop it ? "

Josef Weitz Diary , Sept. 9, 1950, quoted by Tom Segev, 1949, the First Israeli , The Free Press, 1986, p.156.

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