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Haavara FAQs: How did American Jewry behave knowing that two millions were still alive in the death camps?

Rabbis March On DC Oct-1943 Fake Valor: When American Rabbis marched in DC in Oct. 1943 to lobby for rescuing Jews, would you think Zionists supported them?

Based on Israeli and Zionist sources PLUS the NY Times

A Brief Introduction

During WWII, the majority of the American Jewry (except for a brave minority) was passive in the best-case situation. We found only the Rabbis, their small religious community, and the Marxist Jews were the only ones who demanded opening the gates everywhere to save European Jewry. On the other hand, that was an anathema to the American Jewish and Zionist communities as we shall prove soon. In mass, American Jews were adamant that Palestine must be the only haven for persecuted European Jewry. From their point of view, European Jewry's plight could be turned into a LEVER (a term coined first by David Ben-Gurion in the early 1930s) which would create their "Jewish state" by making Palestine a Jewish-majority country.

Hayim-Greenberg Why did Hayim Greenberg describe American Jewry as "morally bankrupt" in early 1943?

In the second half of 1943, those brave Jews were joined by a handful of Zionists (the Bergson Group, a.k.a. the Irgunists or the Bergson Boys), who provided much-needed organizational and public relations skills. Overall, those brave Jews were a minority in the American Jewish Community who were helped by many Gentiles. In general, they were shunned by Jewish leaders in America and Palestine. Much to our surprise, this conclusion encompassed anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jews as well, who were against increasing immigration quotas to the US (an act often described by pulling the ladder behind you). Sadly, at the time, many American Jews were worried that the influx of European Jews would ruin it for them. This is not a surprise to those who works in politics; often immigrant are the first to vote for anti-immigration laws.

The Evidence

NYTimes 1982 Barmoda Conf 1944 NY Times Magazine, April 18, 1982: Zionist leaders admitted there wasn't enough bandwidth to fight the White Paper of 1939 and Hitler. Thus, fighting the Nazis was left to the Gentiles so they could focus on defeating the White Paper.

As we were researching Zionists' response to the Holocaust, we were surprised to discover that the majority in the American Jewish community voted to table their lobbying efforts to rescue European Jews (see the American Jewish Conference, which was the largest gathering of American Jews ever in the Fall of 1943 representing up to five million Jews). This was done primarily to focus all their efforts on creating the "Jewish state" and to increase their political power in America.

Soon after WWII, American Jewish leadership recognized they could not fight both Hitler and the White Paper of 1939 at once, and one had to give. Thus, they chose to fight the White Paper, and defeating Hitler was left for the Gentiles (actually, the yishuv purposely avoided fighting the Nazis, who saw little action at the war's end). Therefore, David Ben-Gurion's LEVER didn't only create a powerful "Jewish state" in the Middle East, but it was also used to create a powerful political LEVER in America, AIPAC (the most powerful lobbying group ever), which was born during the American Jewish conference!

Right arrow free icon Now, allow this fact to sink for a minute: America's and Palestine's Jewry were laser-focused on accumulating political power while Europe's Jews were hanging from a thread! Well, more on that later on; stay tuned.

In this regard, we ask you to contemplate how Raul Hilberg's characterization of this "Patriotic Jewish Conference". Note that Raul's seminal work (in "The Destruction of the European Jews") was the earliest to study the Holocaust. Actually, Raul's assessment is way more critical than ours, which explains why he struggled for 12 years to find a publisher. It seems that Zionists' Ministry of Truth was hard at work:

Were the British so STUPID as to promise COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE to Palestinians in 1939 (who, of course, "didn't exist") while the Indians had been DREAMING of such a thing for 400 years?
The destruction of the European Jews was not even mentioned [....] The Holocaust is unopposed. The paralysis was complete (The Destruction of the European Jews, p. 1205 and 1209 and Zionism during the Holocaust, p. 130)

[What Raul alluded it to was for real. Playing down and suppressing news of the Holocaust was done on purpose, here are the details if you care.]

Also, contemplate how Henry L. Feingold characterized the same conference in the Politics of Rescue:

Jewish-Brigade, April-1945: Impostering Heroes, see me while I bomb Nazis in Italy. Any taken at al Alamein! Fake Valor: Jewish-Brigade, Italy April - 1945: The Impostering Hero, see me while I bomb Nazis. We wonder: were any similar selfies taken at the al-Alamein meat grinder?
Why arouse Arab fears by public pronunciamientos, reasoned the leadership of the Emergency Committee [a.k.a. the Bergson Group], if the same objective could be achieved without endangering the rescue operation? By muting the national home appeal, the rescue momentum might be improved since there existed considerable sensitivity to Arab feelings in the Allied camp. The Emergency Committee reasoned that there was almost no chance that the Allies would affront Arab sensibilities during wartime. They gave rescue priority.
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
For Zionists, however, no such division could be made. It was simply inconceivable that the goal of rescue and that of the national homeland might work at cross purposes. Both were part and parcel of the same objective, the redemption of the Jewish people. One hardly had meaning without the other. By the time Rabbi Stephen Wise testified at the hearings [at the US Congress in late 1943 and early 1944] the issue between the two groups had been joined. Wise refused to endorse the resolution outright, for although there was no divergence on the idea of having a rescue commission, he felt that the resolution was "inadequate" because of its failure to mention the opening of Palestine to unlimited immigration. (Politics of Rescue, p. 238 )
Daddy, what did you do during the Holocaust while you were in Palestine? Fake Valor: Daddy, what did you do during the Holocaust while you were in the US and Palestine?

The astute reader might ask: Why did American Jewry and Zionist leaders execute such a policy at the height of the calamity? Well, here it is from American and Zionist leaders (Rabbi Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann) spelling it out in plain English in May 1943:

We cannot press the Hitler button and the British and Palestine button [defeating the White Paper of 1939] at the same time! (NYTimes, April 18th, 1982: AMERICAN JEWS AND THE HOLOCAUST By Lucy S. Dawidowicz). Nahum Goldman was known to have said something similar (see Abandonment Of The Jews By David S. Wyman, p. 176).

All knew there was insufficient bandwidth to fight both Hitler and the White Paper of 1939 simultaneously, and one had to give. Zionist leaders knew well that the only way to defeat the White Paper was by directing the Jewish refugees ONLY to Palestine; that was the only way Jews could become a majority. That is why they were fixated on Palestine as the only destination for Jewish refugees. Thus, in the process of attaining political, Europe's Jews were left high and dry, and Ben-Gurion got his LEVER that created his state (AIPAC was a bonus). We have addressed this topic in depth in another section.

Why the British and the Americans almost reversed the Balfour Declaration in the middle of WWII?

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

American Jewry's political agitation at the height of the Holocaust (not for rescuing Jews "God forbid," but for the creation of the "Jewish state") was so reckless and dangerous to the war efforts that the British and the American leadership seriously contemplated walking away from Zionism by reversing the Balfour Declaration in July 1943 (see what Peter Grose wrote on this little known subject, p. 178-9). This implies that the American and the British leadership were so angry with the Zionists' agitation that they were close to canceling the Zionist project!

Right arrow free icon Now, allow this fact to sink in for a minute. This is another taboo subject which is rarely talked about. In other words, Zionists and American Jewry were so close to the fire that they almost lost it all: losing their whole project, plus risking millions of lives in Europe for nothing! Now dear )))American Jews(((; please give yourselves a big hand on this )))wonderful gift((( to humanity!

Was American Jewry's Decision an Afterthought?

Which hate speech was worse: Hitler's hate speech at the Reichstag on Jan 30th, 1939, or Ben-Gurion's speech (just two months before Hitler's speech) when he incited the murder of Jews after the Kristallnacht pogrom?

To prove what American Jewry did during WWII wasn't an afterthought, we ask you to contemplate the following few facts: during the same conference Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (one of the most prominent American Zionist leaders) openly asked the Allies in Sept. 1943 not to bomb the death camps and the railroads leading to them (see Aaron Berman, p. 114). Actually, Ben-Gurion and Co. reaffirmed that as late as June 1944. Similarly, around the same period in 1944, Ben-Gurion & Co. refused proposals to rescue Hungarian Jews who could've been accepted in Palestine but as refugees; Zionists wanted them to have full rights on day one (see The American Zionist Lobby 1943-1945 by Aaron Berman p. 144-45). Again, that was when the last two million were still alive. Many will be shocked to know that the Jewish Telegraph Agency used to report on the calamity in real time. America's and Palestine's Jewry during WWII used to monitor JTA as if it was a Twitter feed nowadays. For example, here is what we have collected so far, and that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Now, if you still have the energy and we haven't bored you yet, contemplate reading how American Jewry responded at the Evian Conference and after the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. American Jewry of all shades (Zionists, non-Zionists, anti-boycott, and anti-Zionists alike) dropped the ball in so many ways that could have avoided the mass killing (see Schacht & Rubluee Plans for more details). But first, fasten your seat belt; that is another taboo subject!

The Dissenting Views

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

Honestly, we spent a lot of time researching this "Patriotic Jewish Conference" looking for dissenting views (during the last two years of WWII) to this conference's resolutions, and we found only a few who did (mostly from the American Jewish Committee and a handful of Zionists). But much to our surprise, their objection was based on the timing of the resolutions and not based on principle and substance. We were shocked to discover that even the non-Zionists (like the Committee) demanded that the British must open Palestine for Jewish immigration, but demanded no such thing from their country, the US! This explains why most of those who objected fully adopted the conference's resolutions soon after the war ended. Aside from the Rabbis (who petitioned the UN against the creation of the "Jewish state"), the Marxists, and a few anti-Zionist Jews, we found nothing but a few. In all, those brave Jews were a minority in the American Jewish community.

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?

Arthur Sulzberger, the editor and publisher of the NY Times, was one of them. His family's paper nowadays would never print what Mr. Sulzberger publicly spoke of soon after the war ended in 1946! If you have five minutes, we urge you to read what Mr. Sulzberger said two years before Nakba; he spoke of so many taboo subjects that quickly can get you canceled if you repeat just a few of them nowadays (especially if you are a Jew)! Isn't this the best example of how censorship has been on the rise since WWII ended? If you are serious about uncovering the truth, we urge you to focus on reading old publications and news articles; nowadays, we swim in suffocating censorship.

Sometimes, we ask ourselves: isn't it very telling how Jews have been protesting the genocide in Gaza way more than they ever did during WWII? Note how, in both cases, the dissenting views were a minority, and they were smothered (even though they were called traitors -- a.k.a. Kapos -- in many instances)! Ironically, it was those brave Jews who were first to frame the human tragedy in Gaza as a genocide soon after the Oct. 7th Raid! Honestly, the activities of those brave Jews put so many of us Palestinians to shame!

JFK said it BEST in 1939: Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away

Biltmore Conference

Back to the "Patriotic Jewish Conference" during WWII, it is worth pointing out too that this conference was preceded by another (the Biltmore Conference organized by American Zionists and attended by David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann), which adopted the same platform 16 months earlier, in May 1942 (the Holocaust was in the beginning, by then Zionists knew between two to three million were murdered). When we read both conferences' resolutions, we were shocked to discover they contained little to no references to rescuing European Jewry (see it for yourself) to countries other than Palestine. Both conferences were laser-focused only on creating the "Jewish state" and nothing else! When you examine how American Jewry behaved during the Evian Conference five years earlier in July 1938, you will be shocked to discover that they behaved similarly. Ironically, to Zionist leaders in the 1930s and 40s, the word rescue carried negative connotations, and their stomachs used to turn when the subject of rescue came up.

Kastner train passengers on their way to Switzerland, 1944
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

Therefore, in practice, Zionist leaders executed David Ben-Gurion's infamous antisemitic hate speech to the maximum to increase their political leverage, which Ben-Gurion articulated a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom. Actually, Ben-Gurion used to refer to saving Jews outside of Palestine as more like "Witch Doctor's Medicine." We believe it is worthwhile watching Peter Bergson for two and half minutes talking about the Rabbis' march (the only protest by Jews in DC during WWII), the obstacles they faced from Zionists (which he referred to as "monkey wrenches"), how the Bergson Boys lobbied to rescue Europe's Jews in the US Congress, and most importantly how Zionists fought his group with tooth and nail because they didn't advocate saving Europe's Jews ONLY to Palestine. Make sure to watch Mr. Bergson to the last second and remember this happened when the last million and a half were alive: 

Herzl Died Thinking Israel Would Have Been in Uganda, not in "empty" Palestine.

When confronted with the facts, Zionist Jews (especially those in America) claim that the rescue schemes during the war were limited, and America's power was marginal at best, which was true. On the other hand, this argument ignores the fact that FDR authorized the War Refugee Board (WRB) in a hurry in early 1944, which was credited with saving 200,000 Jews! Now imagine how many more would have been saved if Zionist and American Jewry's leadership hadn't attempted to torpedo their efforts! It is worth noting that the WRB wouldn't have been possible not for the efforts of the few active, brave Jews, especially the non-Zionist ones in the FDR administration and with the help of a handful of Zionists in the Bergson Group. God forbid if the WRB didn't exist; still, Zionists shouldn't have tried to scuttle rescue efforts because, first, no one knows what the result would have been unless serious rescue attempts were tried. Second, it was European Jewry's wish; they wanted everything possible to be done to save them. Third, playing God in such circumstances was morally reprehensible. As FDR's WRB proved; no one knows the result of rescue efforts until you try. To get into Zionists' minds to understand why they have implemented such a policy, we have to ask: what if rescuing Jews was successful and much of the Holocaust was avoided, wouldn't saving Europe's Jews would have rendered the Zionist project mute? We have addressed that in depth in another section.

Thus, this decision left Europe's Jews with two options: either they made aliyah by immigrating ONLY to Palestine or go to Auschwitz, and they lobbied like hell against any viable third alternative. At the height of the calamity, American Jewish leaders even lobbied against those brave Jews (whom we have cited earlier) and even weaponized antisemitism to scare FDR from coordinating with them. Shamelessly, American Jewish leaders even made several attempts to deport them to Palestine, draft them into either the US or the British Armies, and get them audited by the IRS. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Zionists weaponized antisemitism to silence other Jews way before they perfected it against Palestinians.

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

God forbid you think our framing of the events was way over the top, we ask you to contemplate how why Haim Greenberg (one of the towering American Jewish Zionist intellectuals) wrote on Feb 12th, 1943 in the Jewish Frontier a few months after the Holocaust became known:

The time has come, perhaps, when the few Jewish communities remaining in the world, which are still free to make their voices heard and to pray in public, should proclaim a day of fasting and prayer for American Jews. No--this is not a misprint. I mean specifically that a day of prayer and of fasting should be proclaimed for the five million Jews now living in the United States. They live under the protection of a mighty republic governed by democratic laws. . . . The vast majority of them have enough food to eat, clothes to wear and roofs over their heads. . . . Nevertheless, they deserve to be prayed for. They are not even aware what a misfortune has befallen them, and if they were to look at themselves with seeing eyes they would realize with shock how intolerable this misfortune is. . . . If moral bankruptcy deserves pity, and if this pity is seven-fold for one who is not even aware of how shocking his bankruptcy is, then no Jewish community in the world today (not even the Jews who are now in the claws of the Nazi devourer) deserves more compassion from Heaven than does American Jewry. (The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals, p. 46 and here is the full article)

[Mr. Greenberg was one of the few labor Zionists who dared to challenge Ben-Gurion & Co. advocating for the encouragement of all possible havens for Jewish refugees. Notably, he was the driving force behind the proposal to relocate Europe's Jewish refugees to Alaska; however, his suggestions were quickly rejected. Therefore, when he wrote this article, it didn't come out of the blue. Haim's frustration was building up, and then he exploded in early 1943. We are sure that Haim was angry during the American Jewish Conference.]
Catastrophic Zionism at its worst: Zionists often spoke of the Holocaust decades before its time. What did Zionists do to confront it? Zionists were the FIRST to normalize trade with the Nazis!

Just in case you think our characterization is over the top, wait until reading it from ChatGPT (who framed the two options as: land or coffin vs. Palestine or Auschwitz), or reading it from Ben-Gurion himself 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 mass 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.]

We hate to keep re-emphasizing that his policy (of making Palestine the only destination for European Jewish refugees) was implemented to the teeth. At the same time, millions of Jews were still alive (in either the ghettos or in the death camps). To rub salt into the wound, this evil policy persisted after the war ended in the DP camps. In a nutshell, European Jewry was left high and dry at a moment of crisis, and American Jewry helped the Zionist movement turn their plight into the LEVER (actually, Ben-Gurion used the word lever to describe this process) that ended up creating the "Jewish state." This policy explains why much of what was collected to rescue European Jewry was stolen (Zionists would say "diverted") to create the "Jewish state" to be.

The Zionist Version Of Lebensraum: A Map Of The Great Israel

Was This Treason Ever Investigated?

Just in case you think this was some anti-Zionist rant, please think twice. American Jews investigated this policy in early 1983, and it was quickly nixed. Based on our research, this is an open secret in Jewish communities around the world, but it is a big taboo subject to discuss. For example, here is what Haim Greenberg wrote just a few months after the Holocaust became known on Feb. 12th, 1943; he described American Jewry's response as "morally bankrupt" and that way before the American Jewish conference. Here is Nahum Goldmann (one of the leaders of the American Jewish community and one of the founders of the "Jewish state"), who looked back with much regret and remorse about those fateful events during WWII. Also, here are American Jewish leaders lobbying the US Congress in early 1944 for the creation of the "Jewish state" and to force the British to open Palestine for unfettered Jewish immigration. Please pay attention to how this hearing was chaired by a Jewish congressman (Sol Bloom) and how those Jewish leaders never asked the US to open its doors to those poor Jews. Notice how Senator Sol Bloom (at the same hearing) pointed out that thousand of American Jews and their Zionists Christian friends in the Churches sent thousands of telegram in support of the resolution, at the same time, there was only a handful of dissenting views! On the other hand, the Arab Gentile, Philip Khouri Hitti of Princeton, was one of the few to ask US lawmakers to resettle those poor Jews in the many open spaces it had in Arizona or New Mexico. Wasn't it odd that only a few Jews asked for such a thing? This simple fact alone spoke volumes of who actually cared about saving Jewish lives at a moment of crisis!

In layman's terms, this is precisely how Zionist leaders managed to monetize Jewish pain and suffering politically. Remember, AIPAC was born during those fateful years. Remember again, AIPAC's predecessor organizational and lobbying talents were not exploited to save Europe's Jewry at a moment of crisis, but it was laser focused on accumulating political power. Now, dear Jews, please give yourselves a big hand on this "wonderful" ideology: mazeltov. It is truly amazing what people are willing to do to gain power!

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!

American Jewry's policy during WWII explains why they mobilized their hegemony over the media (before you accuse us of peddling antisemitic troops, please watch Prof. Alan Dershowitz articulate our point much better) to pin the blame on FDR, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, IBM, and of course, Mufti Haj Amin (their favorite deflection tools), as if they weren't directly complicit in the calamity. Thus, they have managed to paint everyone as antisemites except for themselves, and that is a complete farce.

It should be noted that when American Jewry executed this policy during WWII, they knew in advance that their policy wasn't helping Europe's Jews (meaning their policy was helping the Nazis). As we pointed out earlier, news of the calamity came via JTA in real time. Despite that, they never wavered in their quest to pursue their political goals even after WWII ended in the DP camps. Meaning that the news of the calamity used to arrive as the one we witnessed during Gaza's genocides, and American Jewry in mass looked the other way (thus, out of sight, out of mind). Notice also that the same policy was executed by two of Israel's future PMs (Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir), who bombed the WWII war effort. At the same time, their families were being gassed in Poland. Shamelessly, many Jewish historians framed such treason as an insurgency against Great Britain! In these fateful years, it seems diaspora Jewish communities outside of Europe became big believers and executors of Catastrophic Zionism phenomenon; so sad! Haim Greenberg's earlier characterization of America's Jewry was accurate: morally bankrupt! It seems nothing have changed since WWII; the same behavior was repeated during the genocide in Gaza!

Since the 6-Day War of 1967, American Jewry's propaganda machine has gone wild to the point that they have been repeating the big lies about Palestine and its people, many of which the founders of the "Jewish state" debunked before they died! This community feeds on spreading gaslights and lies (at least in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict) like no other, which explains why many of them flocked to the lying network (a.k.a. Fox News) soon after the Oct. 7th Raid seeking "real facts"! In this regard, we urge you to watch Emily Tumkin articulating our point in less than a minute; this is an open secret in the American Jewish community. This community knowingly propagates the big lies, and when they are exposed, they are quick to weaponize antisemitism.

Weaponizing Antisemitism in defense of Israel By Donna Level Weaponizing Antisemitism in Defense of Israel By Donna Level

As Emily cited, many other American Jews made similar observations; here is Seth Rogen's version. If you have the time, we ask you to watch Miko Peled exposing you to how Israeli Jews are being indoctrinated with Zionist big lies in the Israeli school system and army boot camps. Therefore, Emily's earlier characterization wasn't concocted out of the blue, and sadly, the mainstream media in the West covered these facts.

If you have three minutes, we ask you to watch this brave anti-Zionist American Jew who articulated our earlier point. Pay attention to how she was force-fed lies about Palestine and its people at an early age. For the love of god, how is feeding Jewish children the big lies is not good for antisemitism?

Fake Valor: 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?

Just in case you think those were an aberration or off-the-cuff remarks by a disgruntled few, here is Moshe Sharett (the 1st Israeli Foreign Minister & 2nd Israeli PM) accurately Zionists' soon after Nakba in 1956:

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered" (Simha Flapan, p. 52-53)

Here is another young American Jewish girl explaining how this community has gone wild on believing their own propaganda. We urge you to watch her for two minutes only. Trust us; it will be worth your time. Please make sure to watch her all the way; her body language is incredible:

Kastner train passengers on their way to Switzerland, 1944
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 on a much larger scale? Kastner train passengers on their way to Switzerland, 1944

Was It Fair To Make Germany The Sole Party Responsible For The Holocaust?

We can safely say, at minimum, that the American Jewish community was at least partially complicit in the genocide. Thus, do you honestly think that it was fair to make Germany the only party responsible for paying reparations? Do you believe it was fair to spend those billions of dollars on the same people who were complicit in the genocide? The honest answer is no.

Kastner train passengers on their way to Switzerland, 1944
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

For the love of god, at least in the case Dr. Rezo Kastner (head of Hungary's Kapos who was infamous for his train that was diverted from Auschwitz to Switzerland) made a life-or-death decision for half a million Jews to save his neck along with 1,600 other Zionists and wealthy Jews. But, in this case, Jews of Palestine and America were making such fatal decisions while they were living under the protection of the British and Americans (a point which was made clear earlier by Mr. Greenberg)! Thus, who were the worst kapos: the ones in the death camps struggling to survive under duress or those who were living in safety in NYC or Tel Aviv? In a nutshell, at a moment of crisis, America's and Palestine's Jewry did what was best for them, and Europe's Jews were left high and dry. Anyhow, let us know in the comments section.   

Did Zionist Jews Give A-Good Name For Refugees
Palestinians Ask: Did Zionist Jews Give a Good Name For Refugees?

Finally, after reviewing all this evidence, we Palestinians have every right to ask: since many in the "civilized West" loves conflating Judaism with Zionism, do you honestly believe [Zionist] Jews gave a good name for refugees? God forbid, if another Jewish refugee crisis occurs in the future, would the "civilized West" refuse to receive Jewish refugees as they did in the 1930s and 40s? God forbid, if such a thing happens again, then who can blame any nation for refusing to take in such refugees? Who would welcome refugees who openly plot to replace them? Thus, was it a mistake to give them refuge? Those are legitimate questions that every Jew and Westerner should contemplate deeply. All we Palestinians ask is just a little empathy, or is that too much to ask?

 

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