Haavara FAQs: Did the Zionist leadership or Jewish organizations lobby to open safe havens other than Palestine for persecuted European Jewry?

Did the Zionist leadership or Jewish organizations lobby to open safe havens other than Palestine for persecuted European Jewry?

NYTimes, as late as 1943, Zionist leaders were lobbying US Congress to block Jewish refugees' safe havens unless GB opened immigration into Palestine

Zionist and Israeli sources will soon prove that Zionist leaders, in both private and public communications, never advocated for any safe havens for Jewish refugees except for Palestine. On the contrary, Zionists exploited Jewish suffering to pressure Great Britain to repeal the White Paper of 1939 and permit unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine. Actually, in the Zionist vocabulary, this sinister strategy is explicitly defined by the LEVER Doctrine. This concept was coined by David Ben-Gurion (the founding father of the "Jewish state") during the 1930s and 40s.

All Zionist leadership's communications demonstrate an unwavering commitment to this demand, an "insane policy" that persisted throughout the height of Nazi repression, especially during the Holocaust, and critically, continued after the war in the DP Camps.

This fixation on a "Palestine-Only" policy as the sole solution for Europe’s Jewish refugee crisis was consistently advocated by all Zionist organizations and lobbying groups in Great Britain and the U.S. between 1933 and 1945. To prove our argument, here are samples of Zionist leaders' communications during this period: BBC Fact File: Bermuda Conference, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle: April 23, 1943, Ariel Lekaditis in this Times of Israel blog, NY Times, Jan. 4th, 1983 & The Jewish Trail of Tears p. 147-150, Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants By Aviva Halamish p. 131-2, 135, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver letter dated Feb. 2nd, 1944.

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?

Should you doubt our presentation, we direct you to a powerful article written in February 1943 by Hayim Greenberg, a major Zionist American intellectual. He described American Jewry's actions as morally bankrupt! This scathing critique was published while the last three million were still struggling for life in the ghettos and death camps! In addition to Greenberg's indictment, we offer a comprehensive collection of evidence, much of which originates from pro-Zionist and Israeli sources.

Spoiler Alert: What we shared already is an open secret in Jewish communities around the world, but it is a big taboo subject to discuss.

Europe's Jewry Were Left With Two Options:
Either Go To Auschwitz, Or Do An Aliyah To Palestine! Land or Coffin!

Kastner Saved Lives Too: How does justifying Haavara after the fact not resemble Kastner's defense of what happened on his infamous train but at a much larger scale? Kastner too saved Live!

Thus, Zionist leaders in practice 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. As you digest this earlier information and you allow to it sink in for a minute, please keep in mind that this evil Zionist policy persisted even after the war ended in the DP camps. Zionists fought with tooth and nail against any resettlement schemes unless the destination was Palestine. Just in case you think our characterization is over the top, wait until you read it from ChatGPT (who framed the two options as: land or coffin), or reading it from David Ben-Gurion (the founder of the "Jewish state") when the Holocaust was in its infancy:

At the Biltmore Conference in May 1942 Ben-Gurion said: “The meaning of these two ships [Patria and Struma -- both were sunk during WWII with Jewish refugees onboard] is simple: Eretz-Israel or death-- and as soon as the war ends, many ships like these will stream to Eretz Israel.” (Beit-Zvi, p. 259)

[Two important points to keep in mind:

A) When Ben-Gurion said this statement, he knew that Patria was sunk by the Haganah based on Moshe Sharett's orders in November 1940 (almost 16 months earlier ). That by itself was very telling.

B) The vast majority of Europe's Jewry after WWII ended immigrated to the Americas and preferred to live with the Gentiles even after Palestine was emptied of its people.]

Did Zionists Reassess Their Palestine-Only Policy At The Height Of The Calamity?

The arrival of a Kindertransport at Waterloo Station, Feb. 2nd, 1939

What was chilling to discover was that when you examine Zionist leaders' communications, you will find no policy reassessment even when it became clear that appeasing Hitler only emboldening him, and as a result, Jewish suffering only kept increased! Actually, Zionists in the 1930s and 40s often openly spoke of how exploiting Jewish pain and suffering would become the LEVER that would create their "Jewish state". To prove our point, here are a few of the citations that will give you an idea about Zionist leaders' mindset at the time. For example, here is David Ben-Gurion addressing the Jewish Agency Executives (JAE) in December 1935 (a few months after the Nuremberg Race Laws were enacted):

that "we must give a Zionist response to the catastrophe faced by German Jewry -- to turn this disaster into an opportunity to develop our country, to save the lives and property of the Jews of Germany for the building of the land. This salvation comes before anything else" (NY Times, April 18th, 1993, Abraham Burg, p. 72 )

Hitler's Message To The West: If Jews are such noble citizens, how come you're not letting them in?

Actually, around the same period too, Ben-Gurion made his infamous LEVER speech as well, here is how his official biographers Shabtai Teveth put it:

Having successful turned such disasters as the Arab riots of 1929 and 1936 to advantage, he [referring to Ben-Gurion] became a grand master of this political skill, to the point that he considered himself ready to take on Hitler. Each disaster might have said, has its rewards for Zionism, and given that Hitler was the worst disaster until then, Ben-Gurion was determined to make it yield the greatest prize.

The advantages Ben-Gurion had sought after publication of the Nuremberg Laws were a Jewish majority in Palestine into a place of refuge for the masses of Jews, who would in turn make Palestine a Jewish country....to get a million Jews out of [Poland and Germany] and direct them to Palestine...I regard this as the lever for our political activity." (The Burning Ground, p. 852)

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

A month after the infamous Nazi pogrom against Germany's Jews (famously known as Kristallnacht), Ben-Gurion provided an interesting mathematical formula for saving German Jewish kids who immigrated to England instead of Palestine. He stated in December 1938 (a month after the pogrom):

"If I knew it was possible to save all [Jewish] children of Germany by their transfer to England and only half of them by transferring them to Eretz-Yisrael, I would choose the latter----because we are faced not only with the accounting of these [Jewish] children but also with the historical accounting of the Jewish People." (Righteous Victims, p. 162 and The Burning Ground by Shabtai Teveth) Ben-Gurion was so concerned that the "human conscience" might bring various countries to open their doors to those persecuted German Jews [God forbid]. He saw this as a threat and warned: Zionism is in danger. (The Seventh Million p. 28 & NY Times, July 12th, 1987)

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

Pay attention A) How Ben-Gurion used the word "save" before the Final Solution was in the picture, which confirms that Zionist leaders spoke of Shoah in the past tense before it happened. In the Zionists' minds, the calamity is happening, and nothing could stop it; therefore, it should be exploited. B) Hitler's infamous hate speech at the Reichstag on Jan. 30th, 1939, almost immediately followed Ben-Gurion's speech by two months; which leads us to believe that David was speaking to Hitler because he (referring to David) refused to retract his antisemitic hate speech although he was heavily criticized for it. Actually, it has been documented that he said something similar (if not worse) 10 days later. If you are interest, here is our complete analysis about this infamous speech!

Here is a fun fact: Not even a thank you cable was sent to thank the British people for their quick response! Anyhow, you may think this was a slip of the tongue; it was spoken in the heat of the moment, and it didn't reflect how Zionist leaders thought at the time. No, that wasn't the case at all. Actually, David ended up doing the same thing but for children in the DP camps eight years later after WWII ended. If you care for more evidence, here are the boring details; we have researched this topic from so many angles. Does this explain why investigating Zionists' and Jewish organizations' passivity, towards rescue, was nixed and de-funded in early 1983? (NYTimes, Jan. 4th, 1983)

David Ben-Gurion's Response to the British Kindertransport a month after Kristallnacht: NY Times, July 12th, 1987, citing Ben-Gurion's official biographers showing how much he "cared" about Europe's Jews who saved themselves by immigrating to countries other than Palestine!

Conclusion

If saving Jews was paramount to Zionist leaders, as Zionists assume, you would think they allocated any money to fund the Capitalist visas (P£1,000 per immigrant) program? Not only were ZERO pennies allocated, but they even refused to allocate any funds from Zionist enterprises (who were funded by Haavara for a decade) at the height of the calamity. You won't believe it until you read Wikipedia, quoting the head of the so-called United Rescue Committee (here is a saved image just in case it will be taken down). Pay attention to what Wikipedia wrote about his Kapo son, much of whom used to be Zionist activists (Dan Porat - 35-36, & see also the below section on Kastner's infamous train). It should be noted that much of JNF's funds came directly from Haavara, and nothing, as far as we know, was allocated to rescue Jews. Rescue funds (if any were ever used to save Jews) came from other sources (i.e., either from JDC, who represented wealthy Jews, or direct donations from Jews worldwide) and not from Zionists' enterprises, which were enriched tremendously because of the British war efforts in Palestine (profits tripled in 1944). Once you read how much Zionist leaders allocated (from what was collected, not from their resources) to rescue Europe's Jews at the height of the calamity, well, you might lose your mind. You've been warned; here are the boring details from a primary source.

If saving Jews was paramount to Zionist leaders, as Zionists assume, you would think Ben-Gurion and Co. had welcomed Europe's persecuted Jews under any condition in Palestine! Well, you can not be further from the truth. The Jewish Agency refused to accept Jews under the status of refugees (The American Zionist Lobby, 1943-1945 by Aaron Berman, p. 144-45). As you absorb the earlier facts, please remember that the Jewish Agency's response occurred when the last two million were alive, and the vast majority of those poor souls perished in the last batch to Auschwitz!

If Palestinian nationalism was created by KGB in the early 1960s, how come Palestinians' most prominent newspaper was named Palestine as early as 1911?

If saving Jews consumed Zionists during WWII, would you think they did anything meaningful to fight Nazi and Fascist forces? What is tragically comical is that Zionist leaders made sure that their boys would see tiny itsy-bitsy of action(s) at war's end, and by far ten thousand times more Indians, Muslims & Arabs fought and died saving real lives compared with the impostering heroes of the so-called Yishuv. (The Seventh Million, p. 83-4, 86-89, JVL) Zionist leadership was keen that their boys wouldn't be wasted in any side meaningless battles (like the meat grinders on the Libyan, Tunisian & Italian fronts), and to save them against their real enemy: That Indigenous Arab (who doesn't exist) just a couple of years after WWII ended, Zionists deployed more than twenty times as much to fight their real enemy: Those "Evil Arabs" who now replaced Nazis & Fascist. On the other hand, those antisemitic Europeans (who murdered millions of Jews whose graves were still fresh) quickly got a free pass just a few years after the Shoah ended. No wonder every European nation eagerly voted for partition in late 1947, and of course, bygones became the bygones. Please don't take our word for it; here are the boring details from Zionist and Israeli sources.

Finally, it is worth pointing out that Jewish Agency personnel were the only Jews to be granted entry visas into Germany after 1938, whose German offices continued to function as late as May of 1941 (Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p. 276).

God forbid, if you made it down here and you still have the time to read, here to is our exhaustive research on Zionists' fixation on Palestine and its ramifications on Europe's Jews.