The Archive · 1939

Zionists Protest Against Ban

London, July 17. The British Government's decision to suspend Jewish immigration into Palestine for six months from October 1 was condemned at an emergency Conference yesterday convened by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The meeting, held in London, was attended by over 200 delegates, who passed a resolution protesting against the immigration ban, and declaring that no policy of artificial exclusion could deny to the Jewish people the exercise of its historic inalienable right of entry into Palestine—Reuter.

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