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What was the economic rationale behind Nicolae Iorga's expulsion of the Jews from Romania?
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The economic rationale behind Nicolae Iorga's expulsion of the Jews from Romania was that the Jews were suffocating the Romanian middle class and needed to be expelled, using slogans such as "Evreii la Palestina" ("The Jews to Palestine"). The program was criticized from early on by Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Iorga's fellow nationalist and post-"Junimist", who noted that the economic rationale behind it was unsound.