Haavara FAQs: How much did Zionist leaders spend on rescuing Jews during WWII when the last four million were still alive in the death camps?

Fake Valor: Jewish-Brigade, Italy April - 1945: The Impostering Hero, see me while I bomb Nazis ONLY a few weeks before WWII ended.

The below budgetary figures for the Jewish Agency reflect how much rescuing Jews was valued by Zionist leaders during WWII, especially at the height of the calamity when when the last four million were still alive in the death camps. It should be NOTED that:

1. Not only the Jewish Agency did allocate for rescuing Jews almost ZERO money from its enterprises, but the Jewish Agency allocated 25% of what was donated worldwide, and the rest (the other 75%), of course, went to build the future state ahead of its time. What was tragically funny was that A) much of what was spent by JA directly came from JDC. However, Zionists in the States accused the same organization (JDC) of treason (The American Zionist Lobby, 1943-1945 by Aaron Berman, p. 128-29). B) What was spent on rescuing Jews was almost half of what was allocated (meaning 1/8th of what was collected was spent on rescue; see expenditure in Table 2, p. 104). C) The evidence proves that if any penny was spent on rescue efforts, Zionist leaders made sure that those rescued Jews were heading ONLY to Palestine. We found zero evidence that any dollars were spent on any rescue scheme EXCEPT for Palestine. Based on our investigation, Zionist leaders attempted to frustrate and hinder any rescue scheme EXCEPT for Palestine.
2. Hitler's Message To The West: If Jews are such noble citizens and you care about them, how come you're not letting them in?
   To put things into perspective, let us compare what was spent on rescuing Jews at the moment of crisis with the size of cash deposits and what was spent by three Zionists' enterprises on building the state to be: i) Palestine was awash with cash during WWII and all (Palestinians & Jews) made money where cash deposits almost quadrupled between 1939 & 1945 (Dina reported P£45 million in yishuv's saving accounts, p. 88 but the real number could be much larger), especially at the height of the calamity. ii) In total, almost P£12 million were spent during WWII by the two major funds (Foundation Fund and the JNF) plus P£2.1 by the Mobilization Fund (mostly funded from donations and an 8-9% tax on wages from yishuv employees & employers), and the vast majority wasn't spent on rescue but on building the state to be (i.e., buying lands, building kibbutzes, buying machinery, security, armaments, schools, healthcare, ..etc), and what was allocated (but not spent; i.e., expenditure) for rescue during the war (P£1.32 million allocated but only P£669k was spent on rescue, see Table 2, p. 104) was either funded from JA loans (that was paid later from donations) or outright donation from wealthy Jews abroad, i.e. JDC-- see Chapter 8 in Dina Porat's book, and focus on p. 72-73 for details.
   
   
   
   Kastner Saved Lives Too: How does justifying Haavara after the fact not resemble Rudolf Kastner's defense of what happened on his famous train but at a much larger scale? Kastner train passengers on their way to Switzerland, 1944
   Just in case you think this was based on incompetence and it was done based on good faith, keep reading; it was done by design (pay attention to Weizmann's letter in early 1938).
   As you contemplate how the Yishuv were awash with cash during the war, pay attention to how they bulked when the Slovakian Working Group asked for $2 million (P£400k) for a deal with Nazis that could have halted all deportations to death camps (see the Europa Plan for more details).
   
   Were the British so STUPID as to promise COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE to Palestinians in 1939 (who, of course, "didn't exists") while the Indians had been DREAMING of such a thing for 400 years?
   A few years later, in early 1948 the Jewish Agency made a $4 million commitment (a.k.a. a bribe loan) to King Abdullah of Transjordan to sideline his opposition to the new state (see Simha Flapan, p. 138), and that was almost a million P£ at that time. To put things into perspective, that was 150% of what the Jewish Agency spent on rescuing Jews (P£669k) during the Holocaust. Now, allow this fact to sink in for a minute, and think how Jews' lives (in dollar figures) were valued by the yishuv! Now we have a baseline to compare with how Jewish lives were valued!
   Here is another prospective, did you know that the Jewish Agency budgeted a million dollars (in the summer of 1947) for its bribery campaign at the UN to gain votes for the Partition plan? (One Palestine Complete, p. 496)
3. Adolf Eichmann & company coined a special Gold Medallion in honor of the Nazis' relationship with Zionists!
   Although P£1.32 million was allocated (see below p. 90-93), we were stunned that half (P£669k, see expenditure in Table 2, p. 104) was spent when the war ended. Where was the rest of the money spent? We have to assume in the service of building the state! The IMPORTANT QUESTIONS are:
   Was the unspent budget done by design?
   Was any money spent on rescuing Jews to countries other than Palestine? Or
   All expenditure was spent on those Jews heading toward Palestine!
   How many Jews would've been saved, irrespective of their destination or political affiliation?
   How did such policies negatively impact the trust between Jewish groups who were trying to rescue Jews?
   
   A HINT: American Jews attempted to answer these questions, but they were nixed in early 1983 (NY Times, Jan. 4th, 1983). Well, keep on reading until you read Weizmann's letter.
4. In May 1939, MS St. Louis in Havana was refused to unload its Jewish passengers in Cuba & US, and it was forced to go back to Antwerp. Jewish Agency refused to give any of its passengers immigration visas to Palestine. Over 250 of the passengers perished during the Holocaust.
   Here is another fun fact, let us compare what was spent (from what was donated from diaspora Jews) by Zionists (P£0.67 million) with what the War Refugee Board (WRB), which was credited with saving 200k Jews, spent P£4 million ($20 million) in less than 14 months (all of what the WRB allocated in its budget was spent).
   
   Just imagine this counterfactual scenario: what if Ben-Gurion & Co. managed to shut down those brave Jews in the Bergson Group who made WRB possible in late 1943? Thus, the Holocaust would have been much worse than it was.
5. Fake Valor: When the Bergson Group organized pageants in major US cities during the Holocaust, why did Zionist leaders lobby to shut them down?
   As we read Chapter 9 in Ms. Porat's book, we were stunned to discover how much the diaspora Jews (especially in Great Britain, Egypt, South Africa, and the US) distrusted Zionist leaders and how they unanimously demanded that rescue funds should be spent to rescue Europe's Jews irrespective Jews political affiliation, or their destinations (i.e. irrespective if Jews were headed to Palestine or not)! As if all knew that rescue money would be stolen or diverted away from rescuing Jews! After reading these hard facts:
   
   JFK said it BEST in 1939: Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away
   How could anyone blame them for their distrust of Zionist organizations?
   Could this explain why so many of Europe's Jews flipped their middle fingers to Ben-Gurion & Co.,  voted with their feet, and immigrated to the Americas to live with the Gentiles? Isn't it odd how this phenomenon continued until the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s?
   Is it possible if Jews were leaderless (as Hannah Arendt once concluded), Jews would have fared much better? It seems that Nahum Goldmann (one of the founding fathers of the "Jewish state") seems to agree with Ms. Arendt but way after the fact!
   How do these facts not explain how most of Europe's Jews distrusted Zionists and looked upon them as enemies from within?
6. Fake Valor:Why Did Zionist Jews Hoist Nazis Flag on Their Ships in the 1930s?
   The yishuv in mass were in favor of increasing rescue funds, and it was the Histadrut that kept pushing over and over to help rescue Jews at a time of crisis. Still, it was the Zionist leaders (who headed the JAE) who resisted all calls to increase the budget allocated for rescue; see the ending of page 92-93 below.
7. By mid-1943, it became clear to the yishuv (especially in the Histadrut's leadership) that little was being done to rescue Europe's Jews, the Jewish Agency Executive (JAE) said it in plain English: we are not in the business of rescue; we are in the business of building a state, implying that rescue efforts are the responsibility of other Jewish organizations! On the other hand, the JAE insisted hoarding rescue funds as much as possible to make sure it will be spent on the future state to be! In practice, literally, Europe's Jews were left high and dry! When the records and the budget were examined, it became crystal clear: spending any penny on rescuing Jews outside of Palestine rendered the whole Zionist project mute! Therefore, un-saving those unfortunate Jews, in practice, was good for Zionism! That would explain how and why much of the rescue budget was diverted to building the state, wouldn't it? Inspect the case of War Refugee Board and see for yourself how Zionist leaders fought it with tooth and nail! To Zionist leaders' chagrin, up to 200,000 Jews were saved! From Zionists' point of view, 20 million dollars were diverted from their pool of funds!
8. A Playlist Of Short Clips Of Jews Sharing Their DNA Test Results
   When you read Chapter 8 in Dina Porat's book, you will see how much Zionist leaders resisted spending any money or resources on saving Jews. Zionist leaders were laser focused and practical: why spend money on those who will die; why waste valuable resources fighting the Nazis when the Gentiles (including many Palestinians and Arabs) seem to be doing a great job? And if Europe's Jews survive, they will be of little benefit to the yishuv; we (meaning Zionists) should think of the future! (See the last couple of paragraphs on p. 78) Zionism comes first! That is why David Ben-Gurion made sure that only a few of his men would see action fighting the Nazis as WWII was ending (although over 30k enlisted into the British Army); Ben-Gurion wanted them to be ready and at their maximum abilities to fight the real enemy: that evil Arab!
9. Fake Valore: Why did two of Israel's future PMs, Menachem Begin and Yizhak Shamir, bomb WWII war efforts while their families were being gassed in Poland?
   If we find out that Apolinary Hartglas' (the political secretary of the so-called Rescue Committee, a.k.a. the Death Panel) recommendation at the height of the calamity (when he recommended to consider European Jews' fate as doomed and all resources should be focused on building the state) was implemented to the teeth, would you be surprised? (Dina Porat, 245-6, and Yoav Gelber, p. 591).
   
   To prove what we wrote wasn't some anti-Zionist rant, we urge you to read how Ben-Gurion's biographer, Shabtai Teveth, described how the word rescue among Zionists had negative connotations, which sheds light on Zionists' mind-set during WWII!
10. NY Times quoting David Ben-Gurion's official biographers EXPOSING how much he "cared" about Europe's Jews a month after Kristallnacht, especially about the Jews who chose to save themselves by immigrating to countries other than Palestine!
    We were stunned to find that what Dina disclosed here has been an open secret since the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. That said, Zionists moved the goalpost: Zionists didn't do it intentionally. For the details, please read what David S. Wyman (in the Abandonment of the Jews) wrote in the footnotes section on page 177. We followed Mr. Wyman with our commentary to de-Habarara Zionists' Hasbarah.
11. It is worth pointing out that we have reached a similar conclusion even before we saw Dina's work; Zionist leaders' internal communications are riddled with schemes that aimed to hoard as much of the rescue funds as possible, which goes back to the 1930s. For example, here is Chaim Weizmann's letter that was written in preparation for the Evian Conference in early 1938 (Post Uganda: Zionism On Trial, p. 153). Weizmann could not have made it clearer: devoting much of the rescue funds outside of Palestine would render the Zionist project mute. Therefore, this should be no surprise. We urge you to read Beit-Zvi's analysis (page 154), and Edwin Black's assessment as well; both analysis are second to none. If you are interested in the boring details, here is also our complete analysis of how and why hindering rescue, during WWII, was good for Zionism.
12. David Ben-Gurion envisioned that Nazis' Nuremberg Race Laws would become the LEVER that would end up creating the "Jewish state," but how? Click the image for the details
    Here is a fun fact that we came across recently. In Germany proper (not the satellite states like Hungary) during the peak of the Holocaust Jews could have bribed their way out to a neutral country, like Switzerland, for under RM6,000. This is how much a serious rescue budget would have made a difference. By the way, at the time every RM20 were equivalent to one P£. Certainly, in the satellite state, the bribes were much less.
13. We were stunned to find a JTA report on Feb 16th, 1943 which cited the Jewish Agency had anticipated the defeat of the Axis powers by the end of the year! Therefore, the Jewish Agency had allocated 10% of its annual budget ($4,608,000) to help transition yishuv's life and economy from war to peace footing! Just think about it for a minute: why spend a lot of money to rescue Europe's Jews when the war will be over soon? Remember, this happened when the last two million were still alive! Since the war ended 2 1/2 years later, may we know what happened to this money? How many Jewish lives were lost because of such policies?

Fake Valor: Daddy, what did you do during the Holocaust while you were in Palestine?

To prove that Zionist leaders knew what they were doing from day one and the risks their policies entailed, it is worth quoting Lenni Brenner who cited Rabbi Stephen Wise in a speech at a World Jewish Conference at Geneva in 1934 (yes, eight years before the Final Solution). Wise attacked the Labourites (a.k.a. Labour Zionists or MAPAI) who had become the dominant force in Palestinian Zionism:

One leading Palestinian put it over and over again at Prague: Palestine has primacy. This conference must clearly state that while Palestine has primacy over all other factors in the equation, its primacy ceases when it comes into conflict with a higher moral law. (Dr. Stephen Wise on Policy of World Jewry, World Jewry, London, 24 August 1934 -- p. 395)

Why did Great Britain indict two of Israel's future PMs on charges of terrorism? Those evil British must have been "Jew-hating" antisemites!

Wise had identified the rot in the World Zionist Organization (WZO): the land of Israel had become far more important than the needs of the people of Israel. Labour Zionism had become, in the fullest sense, a utopian cult. They saw a new Jew in the old Jewish land as the only way for a Jewish nation to continue to exist. The real Jewish people, the millions of Jews of the Diaspora, were no more than a reservoir from which they would pick young immigrants to build their state. The Diaspora, as such, was doomed: either the Jews would be driven out, as in Germany, or assimilated as in France. With this strange perspective that Jewish survival stood or fell with them in Israel, the Zionists were driven to seek more from the Nazis to make their vision into a reality.

Here is the unvarnished truth: the Haavara Agreement was executed for nine years nonstop with Hitler to save Zionism, and at the height of the calamity, Jews were left high and dry by those who "valued Jewish lives the most". In the best-case situation, if this wasn't the worst display of Fake Valor, then we don't know what it is one! At a moment of crisis, Zionist leaders made sure that Europe's Jews were left with two options: either they make Aliyah to Palestine to join the yishuv, or go to Auschwitz; and lobbied feverishly like hell against any viable thirds alternative. Sadly, this continued even after WWII ended in the DP camps. That is why Zionism is a terrible disease of the mind, and Jews, among all people, should help Palestinians eradicate it from its roots!

JTA Sept. 3rd, 1933 Quoting Nahum Sokolow: "Hitlerism enables us to convert all Jews to Zionism."

You may ask yourself why Zionism is a terrible disease of the mind? The answer is simple: because it could happen again. By trial and error, Zionists instinctively knew that fomenting antisemitism has always been profitable to them, and their Never Again slogan is just a slogan. Zionists will always do what is good for Zionism first & last, inclusive of feeding the diaspora's Jews into the jaws of hell again.
Why would you expect Zionists to change their winning formula? Please read Tony Greenstein's excellent research on how something as Haavara was replicated in Argentina at the expense of Jewish lives, p. 190-192
How such behavior wasn't exactly as if Zionist leaders implemented the Hannibal Doctrine to the maximum? Isn't that what happened after the Oct. 7th Raid? After eleven months of war in Gaza, does it seem to you that Zionist Jews care about the Israeli "hostages"?
When did Zionists ever stop weaponizing "antisemitism"?
Can they (meaning Zionists) do it again?
Do you (as a Jew) want to bet your life on it again? and again? and Never Again? Only time shall tell, and it is not looking good so far.

Financial Data

As you read the below financial data, please note that often Zionists gaslight by emphasizing how much was allocated for rescue. Although what was allocated was a fraction of what was collected to rescue Europe's Jews, that is irrelevant. What is important was how much was actually spent:

• p. 104 - Table 2:
  
• p. 88:
  
• p. 89:
  
• p. 90:
  
• p. 91:
  
• p. 92: It was CHILLING to read starting from the 2nd last paragraph. The Jewish Agency Executive didn't want to hear the words rescue; period; end of the story (also confirmed by Shabtai Teveth as well). That explains why the word "rescue" had negative connotations as we have pointed out earlier. Simply, such a word made Zionist leaders' stomachs turn. Pay attention to how the JAE deflected by saying that rescuing Jews wasn't their business; rescuing Jews was somebody else's business (e.g., JDC & Co., who actually funded much of JA's rescue funds). If that was remotely correct, why did JAE hoard as much as possible of the rescue funds and fought with tooth & nail against others who could've received them? Meaning that the rescue funds were managed by the same people who made rescuing Jews not their business! Actually, Samual Merlin (of the Bergson Group & the Emergency Committee To Save the Jewish People of Europe) confirmed JAE's policy in a video clip we provided at the end of the current page. Is it possible that hindering rescue efforts was good for Zionism? Was this the LEVER that Ben-Gurion often spoke of?
  
• p. 93: Note how Ms. Parot credited the Histadrut for saving JA's "honor" as if she doesn't know how Zionists can Hasbarah their way out of any embarrassing situation as usual! Dear Ms. Parot, if Zionists were successful in selling millions of Jews that it was Zionist Jews who bloomed the Negev desert (yes, the same Negev which hasn't bloomed since the ice age), they can sell them dishonor in the name of honor:
  
• Here is a summary with our commentary added, all in one image combining pages 90 to 93, including Table 1. Pay attention, this occurred when the last three million were still alive in the death camps:
  

Scanned from The Blue And The Yellow Star Of David by Dina Porat, Chapter 8, pages 88-93

Please watch Samual Merlin (of the Bergson Group & the Emergency Committee To Save the Jewish People of Europe) for two minutes: "....Zionists used to say that rescue wasn't our business....", and that confirms what Ms. Porat reported earlier on page 92. Note also what Mr. Merlin said in the last 20 seconds, he referred Chaim Weizmann's infamous antisemitic speech. By now, you must be aware that the house of Zion is full of antisemitism; therefore, this should not be a surprise. Anyhow, also we found this helpful book by Mr. Merlin which you might find helpful:

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God forbid if you thought Mr. Merlin's tongue slipped and it wasn't a Zionist policy (not to focus on rescue), here is Shabti Teveth directly quoting David Ben-Gurion stating something very similar. This was and still is an open secret:

In August of that year [1943], at a JAE [Jewish Agency Executive] meeting that heard a report from an Istanbul representative claiming that the lack of funds severely restricted rescue opportunities, Ben-Gurion again spelled out his line.
The institution called the Jewish Agency is an all-Jewish organization for the upbuilding of Palestine, and I do not intend to say what is more important, building Palestine, or rescuing a single Jew from Zagreb. It may be that, at one time or another, the rescue of a single child from Zagreb is more important, but these are two different matters. The Agency is bound to do....everything in the way of rescuing Jews by immigration to Palestine....This is its role. However, the tasks of assistance, of saving one more Jew, of doing all to prevent deportations, are very important and must be assumed by another organization, to be set up and funded from other sources. (Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1888 - 1948, pages 858-59

As we have pointed out earlier, much of what was collected and allocated for rescue (to Palestine or any other location) was actually funneled to shore up the Zionists enterprise in Palestine, and almost all of it came from JDC and other wealthy Jewish donors. "Rescue" for Zionists implied building Palestine as "Jewish state"; and Europe's Jews suffering was only the "lever" to achieve their political goals.