Haavara FAQs: How did American Jewry behave knowing that over two million were still alive in the death camps?
Introduction: The American Jewish Response to the Holocaust
Fake Valor: When American Rabbis marched in DC in Oct. 1943 to lobby for rescuing Jews, would you think Zionists supported them?
Extensive evidence indicates that, during World War II, the majority of American Jewry was largely passive concerning the plight of millions in death camps. The primary focus of the broader American Jewish and Zionist leadership was concentrated on state-building in Palestine and ensuring that European Jewry was directed solely toward Palestine, rather than an immediate, universal rescue effort. A brave minority --including religious Rabbis and their communities, along with Marxist Jews-- were key exceptions. These small groups were the only ones who consistently and vocally demanded that immigration gates be opened everywhere to save European Jewry.
Why did Hayim Greenberg describe American Jewry as "morally bankrupt" in early 1943?
This conclusion --that saving Jews anywhere outside of Palestine was largely anathema to the American Jewish and Zionist establishment-- emerged unexpectedly from our research into the Haavara Agreement. As you shall discover soon, the volume of evidence made a different conclusion impossible.
To put it bluntly, the dominant American Jewish viewpoint was adamant that Palestine must be the only safe haven for persecuted European Jewry. They saw the plight of European Jews as a "LEVER" (a term coined earlier by David Ben-Gurion in the 1930s & 40s) to ensure a Jewish-majority state in Palestine.
The Passive Majority and the Active Minority
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
The American Jewish community's passivity even extended to anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jews, many of whom opposed increasing immigration quotas to the US. This position was born from a fear --often described as "pulling the ladder behind you"-- that a large influx of European Jews would jeopardize their own established status in America. This dynamic, where established immigrant groups later oppose new immigration, is not uncommon in political history.
In the summer of 1943, the few existing activists were joined by the Bergson Group (a.k.a. the Irgunists or the Bergson Boys). Though a small contingent of Zionists, they provided crucial organizational and public relations skills. This minority was often assisted by willing Gentiles but was routinely shunned and marginalized by the mainstream Jewish leadership in America and Palestine. Their stories remain largely suppressed in the mainstream press.
A Contrast to the Past
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 German Jews a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom?
The American Jewish community's inaction during the Holocaust stands in stark contrast to its response to infamous pogroms before WWII (notably Kishinev in 1903 and those in Ukraine post-WWI). Four decades earlier, the American Jewish community had mobilized on all fronts to rescue and assist their kin in Eastern Europe, despite having far fewer resources than during WWII.
Tracing the Inaction
Palestinian Replacement In A Single Picture:al-Tira's school before and after Nakba. The same place but different people
This passivity can be traced back to earlier events:
In all these instances, the response from American Jewry was, at best, aloof, timid, and disengaged.
In our view, their conduct at the Evian Conference was the canary in the coal mine--the point where the pattern of inaction truly began. Prepare to have your fundamental understanding of the WWII era challenged.
Spoiler Alert: What little we shared is an open secret in Jewish communities around the world, but it is a big taboo to discuss!
While researching the Haavara Agreement and the Zionists' response to the Holocaust, we were surprised to discover that the majority in the American Jewish community actually voted to table their lobbying efforts to rescue European Jewry, 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 allJewish lobbying efforts on creating the "Jewish state" and to increase their political power (a.k.a. the LEVER in Zionists' lexicons). In essence, American Jewry rubber-stamped the Zionists' Biltmore Program, which was adopted 15 months earlier, more on that shortly.
Soon after WWII, the American Jewish leadership recognized they could not fight both Hitler and the British White Paper of 1939 (which effectively reversed the Balfour Declaration) at once, and one had to give. Note how fighting Hitler is correlated to the rescue effort. Thus, at this existential crisis in Jewish history, the American Jewish leadership chose to fight the White Paper, and defeating Hitler was left for the Gentiles. Actually, the yishuv purposely avoided fighting the Nazis to the bitter end, who saw little action at the war's end.
Consequently, David Ben-Gurion's LEVER not only created a powerful "Jewish state" in the Middle East, but it was also used to create the most powerful political LEVER in America, AIPAC (the powerful lobbying group). Interestingly, AIPAC was born during the American Jewish Conference!
Bialystok Ghetto Uprising Aftermath, August 15 - 20, 1943
Allow this fact to sink in for a minute: America's and Palestine's Jewry were laser-focused on accumulating political power while Europe's Jewry was hanging by a thread! Well, more on that later on; stay tuned.
Raul Hilberg's Assessment
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 the Zionist 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.]
Henry Feingold's Assessment
Also, contemplate how Henry L. Feingold characterized the same conference in the Politics of Rescue:
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.
Fake Valor: Why Did Zionist Jews Hoist Nazis Flag on Their Ships in the 1930s?
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 the 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 )
Why Was American Jewry Silent On Rescue During WWII?
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).
In May 1939, MS St. Louis in Havana was refused permission to unload its Jewish passengers in Cuba & US, and it was forced to go back to Antwerp. The Jewish Agency refused to give any of its passengers immigration certificates to Palestine. Over 250 of the passengers perished during the Holocaust.
All knew well there was insufficient bandwidth to fight both Hitler and the White Paper of 1939 simultaneously, and one had to give. The Zionist leadership 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 power, Europe's Jews were left high and dry, and Ben-Gurion got his LEVER that created his state, and AIPAC was a bonus. If you care, we have addressed this topic in depth in another section.
Why did the British and the Americans almost reverse 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 and public relation agitations 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 of the NY Times wrote on this little known subject, p. 178-9 which Judge J. Proskauer alluded to during the American Jewish Conference around the same time period. This implies that the American and British leadership were so angry with the Zionists' agitation that they were close to canceling the Zionist project for good!
AGAIN, allow this fact to sink in for a minute. This is another major taboo subject that is rarely talked about: 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! Mazeltov!
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 that 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. To add salt to the wound, Rabbi Silver questioned the wisdom of sending food baskets (via the Red Cross) to the ghettos! Furthermore, Ben-Gurion and Co. reaffirmed what Rabbi Silver recommended as late as June 1944, and he reversed course to save face only when the Gentiles in Switzerland protested after the Auschwitz Protocols were released!
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. The Zionists wanted them to have full rights on day one (see it yourself in The American Zionist Lobby 1943-1945 by Aaron Berman, pp. 144-45), and many of those were shipped to Auschwitz soon after. Again, that was when the last two million were still alive.
Maybe American Jewry, As The Germans, Didn't Know?
Some give American Jewry the benefit of the doubt by saying they didn't know. Honestly, that is plausible if the Jewish press (such as Jewish Telegraph Agency) didn't cover the news of the calamity in real-time. America's and Palestine's Jewry during WWII used to monitor JTA (and many other news agencies) as if it were a Twitter feed nowadays. For example, here is what we have collected so far, and that is only the tip of the iceberg.
Dorothy Thompson (the renowned American writer and advocate for Jewish refugees' rights in the 1930s and 40s) used her platform to spread the message about Nazi crimes to tens of millions of people per week (in America and Europe) during the war. The Jews canceled her for good and labeled her an antisemite after Nakba, when she recognized how she was duped by the Zionists' big lies. We have addressed her case in depth in another section if you care.
The way the Jews treated Dorothy after Nakba was the first sign of how they treated advocates who turned against their policies in Palestine. What was sad in Dorothy's case was that only a handful of Jews stood by her afterwards, although she did more than any Jew to bring awareness about Nazi crimes as they were happening. As we shall demonstrate soon, much of the Jewish intellectual class was silent during the war.
To prove our point, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum only recognized Ms. Thompson's efforts as late as 2019, way after Dorothy died. To be honest, USHMM's page was fair about Dorothy's role before & during WWII, although it was scrubbed clean from any criticism of Zionism. On the other hand, what is the point if a webpage, when it was written way after Ms. Thompson was chewed and branded as an antisemite like Hitler!
Adolf Eichmann & company coined a special Gold Medallion in honor of the Nazis' relationship with Zionists! Do you have any ideas why he visited Palestine in 1937?
As you contemplate the earlier facts, remember how American Jewry moved heaven and earth to rescue their loved ones in Kishinev forty years earlier, when they had far fewer resources to work with!
If you still have the energy and we haven't bored you yet, contemplate reading how American Jewry responded at the Evian Conference and during the MS St. Louis refugee crisis. Also, American Jewry of all stripes (Zionists, non-Zionists, anti-boycott, and anti-Zionists alike) dropped the ball in so many ways that could have avoided the mass killing eight months before WWI began, 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 plenty of time researching this "Patriotic American Jewish Conference" looking for dissenting views (which happened in the last two years of WWII), and we found only a few who were mostly from the American Jewish Committee and a handful of Zionists (e.g., Hayim Greenberg wrote Bankrupt in Feb. 1943 and then he went silenced soon after for good). Much to our surprise, their objection was based on the timing of the resolutions and not on the principle and substance. We were shocked to discover that even the non-Zionists (like those in the American Jewish Committee) demanded that the British must open Palestine for Jewish immigration, but demanded no such thing from their country, the US!
This behavior explains why most of those who dissented from AJC's resolutions 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.
The Silence Of Jewish Intellectuals
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 the few who dissented, but sadly, he voiced his dissent after WWII ended. Mr. Sulzberger's family paper nowadays would never print what he publicly spoke of soon after the war ended in 1946 (not during the Holocaust)! 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)!
The same logic applies to Hannah Arendt and many other Jewish intellectuals such as Albert Einstein, Erich Fromm, and Judah Magnus. Ms. Arendt voiced her opinion only after WWII ended, when it was safe to do so in May 1946. To Ms. Arendt's & Mr. Magnus' credit, they spoke forcefully against the Biltmore program, which focused on creating the "Jewish state" after the war, but both wrote very little about rescuing the Jews as the Bergson Group did late in the game (on July 22nd, 1943)! On the other hand, they all spoke against replacing and dispossessing Palestinians after the Nakba was concluded.
Official UN Map: It was updated in August 1950, showing that Palestinians STILL OWN 94% of the lands
It is worth noting that what Albert Einstein wrote on April 10th, 1948, a day after the infamous massacre in Deir Yassin, was an aberration that occured in the heat of the moment. In his letter, Albert singled out the Irgun and Stern, although it was an open secret that the Haganah approved and assisted the attack!
A couple of decades after the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote in 1966 a revealing book: The Jews of Silence. The book referred to American Jewry's silence concerning USSR's Jewry, but the untold message was: here you go again; you are silent again! On the other hand, what characterized the vast majority of his writings was the loudest silence ever. Not only about Palestine, Gaza, but most importantly, concerning the Jewish response to the Holocaust. If you care, we have addressed this rarely talked about topic in another section.
In other words, the Jewish intellectuals played it safe, and in the best of case that doesn't look good! In any case, if you are serious about uncovering the truth, we recommend focusing on reading old publications and news articles. Nowadays, we swim in suffocating censorship. We asked Google's AI Gemini to reflect on our earlier conclusion; we asked it to be our devil's advocate. Here is how it replied. Gemini spotted a minor error.
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!
Biltmore Conference
JFK said it BEST in 1939: Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away
Back to the "Patriotic American 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 but 16 months earlier, in May 1942. Then, the Holocaust was in the beginning, and the Zionist leadership knew that between two and three million had already died. 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.
Two full-page ads in the NY Times calling for the rescue of millions of European Jews, but ONLY Palestine was cited!
Both conferences (Biltmore & AJC) 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 had behaved similarly. We were stunned to discover that the word "rescue", to Zionist leaders in the 1930s and 40s, carried negative connotations. You won't believe it until you read it from Ben-Gurion's official biographer! Zionists' antisemitism operated in the open during the pre-Nakba period.
Leon Trotsky's Call for Resistance Contrasts with Zionist Jewry's Appeasement
Love it or hate it, only a few heeded his warnings; that is the honest truth.
Imagine This Treasonous Counterfactual
A Fun Fact: Why were most Kapos Zionists?
What if Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority met either President Trump or Biden during Gaza's Genocide and said nothing about rescuing his people? We are certain that you would judge such behavior as treasonous, right? What if we tell you this counterfactual scenario actually happened, but during WWII?
Israel Honored Hitler's Lover Boy (Avraham Stern) By Placing His Portrait On Stamp
Spoiler Alert: Just before the meeting with FDR, in early June 1943, Weizmann had a chilling, confidential meeting with the Jewish leadership in which he expressed his belief that Europe's Jewry was doomed and the yishuv had to depend on itself going forward. As you digest the ramifications of what we wrote, remember that over two million were still alive in the death camps and the ghettoes, and in the next two years, the WRB saved hundreds of thousands of Jews, although its hands were tied behind their backs!
Just imagine: How many Jews would have been saved if the Zionists had given them a helping hand instead of sticking monkey wrenches in WRB's wheels?
A Playlist Of Short Clips Of Jews Sharing Their DNA Test Results
Think about it: if you were Dr. Weizmann and believed Europe's Jewry was doomed, then spending any money on rescue efforts would be a waste of resources, right? Well, that is exactly what happened. Once you examine what the Jewish Agency allocated and spent on rescue during the war, you might lose your religion. You have been warned. Just in case you would think that was an aberration? No, that was the norm among the Zionists!
Ask yourself: If you were in FDR's shoes, why should you care and risk American treasure and blood to rescue Europe's Jews, when your Jewish community did not bring up the subject of rescue, right? If all that the Jews cared about was their state, then you'd better do the same: America First!
Analysis
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!
Therefore, in practice, Zionist leaders executed David Ben-Gurion's infamous antisemitic hate speech to maximize their political leverage, which Ben-Gurion articulated a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. Shamelessly, Ben-Gurion used to refer to saving Jews outside of Palestine as more like "Witch Doctor's Medicine.", and to this date, the Jews have given a free pass on his antisemitism. In our humble opinion, 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 the 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 the Zionists of all stipes fought them with tooth and nail because they advocated against the Palestine-ONLY policy. Make sure to watch Mr. Bergson to the last second and remember again, 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 the Zionists and American Jewry's leadership hadn't attempted to torpedo their efforts!
It is worth noting that the WRB wouldn't have been possible without 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, the Zionists shouldn't have tried to scuttle any rescue efforts because:
Let's Examine The DNA Genetic Distances between Israelites, European Jews, Arab Jews, and Palestinians
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 they are tried.
Imagine: What If Rescue Efforts Worked?
To get into the Zionists' minds, to understand why they have implemented such a treasonous policy, we have to ask: what if rescuing the Jews was successful and much of the Holocaust was avoided, wouldn't saving Europe's Jewry have effectively rendered the Zionist project mute? If you care, we have addressed this topic in depth in another section.
Thus, in practice, this decision left Europe's Jews with two options: either they made aliyah by immigrating ONLY to Palestine or go to Auschwitz, and the Zionists lobbied like hell against any viable third alternative. At the height of the calamity, American Jewish leadership 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."
If you think our framing of the events was way over the top, we ask you to contemplate what Hayim Greenberg (who was 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)
Zionists marketed Nazi goods in Palestine in the 1930s
[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. Hayim's frustration was building up, and then he exploded in early 1943. We are sure that Hayim must have been fuming with anger during the American Jewish Conference who was on its steering committee.
Sadly, Mr. Greenberg's dissenting voice was quickly silenced. What was really targic, that most --if not all-- Jewish intellectuals were silent during the Holocaust, and they spoke only when it was "safe" to do so after the war ended, and that includes Hannah Arendt, Judah Magnus, Albert Einstein, and Erich Fromm.]
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)
The Lever of Disaster: The Patria, Ben-Gurion, and the Doctrine of Sacrificial Statehood
[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.
Abla Mohamad Daoud Dajani outside her family's looted house in the Baq'ah neighborhood - Jerusalem. Click the image for more such pictures that document Palestinians' dispossession.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have it. What you just read was Catastrophic Zionism in its ugliest forms: The Jews will survive antisemitism ONLY in Palestine. Thus, why spend precious resources on those who were doomed anyhow!
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.
Did The Jews Ever Investigate This Treason?
The Zionist Version Of Lebensraum: A Map Of The Great Israel
Just in case you think what you read was some anti-Zionist rant, then 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. As we pointed out earlier, Haim Greenberg described American Jewry's silence on Feb. 12th, 1943, as "morally bankrupt." 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.
Times Of Israel: Lebensraum is needed for Israel
In early 1944, the American Jewish leadership spent much of their efforts lobbying the US Congress 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 thousands of American Jews and their Zionist Christian friends in the Churches sent thousands of telegrams 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 about who actually cared about saving Jewish lives at a moment of crisis!
How Was Jewish Pain and Suffering Monetized?
In layman's terms, this is precisely how the Zionist leadership managed to monetize Jewish pain and suffering politically. Remember, AIPAC was born during those fateful years. Remember again that AIPAC's predecessor organization and lobbying talents were not utilized to save Europe's Jewry at a moment of crisis, but rather, American Jewry 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! If you care, here is how Google's Gemini tackled this moral bankruptcy!
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 it mobilized its 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 the Jewish community itself wasn't directly complicit in the calamity. Thus, American Jewry has managed to paint everyone as antisemites except for itself, and that is a complete farce. Especially in the case of FDR, framing him as a complicit or as an enabler of the Holocaust can't be more evil. We investigated FDR's administration's response during the Holocaust, and honestly, FDR behaved honorably. If you care, we have addressed this topic in another section.
It should be noted that when American Jews executed this policy during WWII, they knew in advance that their policy wasn't helping Europe's Jews (meaning they knew their policy was helping the Nazis kill more Jews). 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).
Let us ask Reinhard Heydrich, The Architect of the Holocaust, If Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism!
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, so 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 implementers of the Catastrophic Zionism phenomenon; so sad! Haim Greenberg's earlier characterization of America's Jewry was accurate: it was morally bankrupt! It seems nothing has 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 gaslighting 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
As Emily explained, 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 not good for antisemitism?
Fake Valor: Why did two of Israel's future PMs, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak 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 describing 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 its 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 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!
Was It Fair To Make Germany The Sole Party Responsible For The Holocaust?
We can safely say, at a minimum, that the American Jewish community was at least partially complicit in the Jewish genocide known as the Holocaust. 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. Turning a blind eye to serious crimes eight decades ago enabled many future ones, including genocides and Nakbas.
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!
For the love of god, at least in the case of Dr. Rezo Kastner (head of Hungary's Kapos who was infamous for his train that was diverted from Auschwitz to Switzerland), he 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, why have every right to ask: 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.
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