It was sweeping Europe and beyond. It was infecting the Arabs in the Middle East and. on June 1. and 2. 1941. these was a cruel pogrom in Iraq. where hundreds of Jews were killed and many were wounded. The British. yielding to Arab pressure. were stopping Jewish immigration to Palestine. and the one road to escape from the Nazi death factories was being closed off. Iraq would not even grant transit visas to Jewish women and children. refugees from Poland. who were seeking to make their way as legal immigrants to Palestine. There were many Christians as well as Jews at that meeting in the Cleveland auditorium. I was there and I joined In the protest. and I warned against British policy in the Middle East and the disastrous consequences it might have for the Jewish people.
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