Myth: Zionism was all about rescuing Jews facing persecution. Fact: The Jewish Agency blocked a rescue attempt of >1,000 ultra-orthodox rabbis & their wives & children, because they were "not Zionist."

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Zachary Foster

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Myth: Zionism was all about rescuing Jews facing persecution. Fact: The Jewish Agency blocked a rescue attempt of >1,000 ultra-orthodox rabbis & their wives & children, because they were "not Zionist." See this History Speaks post and document. This is consistent with the Jewish Agency's attitude towards "rescue" after the war as well, namely, that the Zionist movement deliberately sought to prolong the suffering of Jewish Holocaust survivors if their rescue meant rescue to a country other than Palestine (source: https://palestinenexus.com/articles/zionists-holocaust-survivors) The Zionist movement sought to build a Jewish State in Palestine. Everything else was subordinated to that goal. If rescuing Jews helped secure a Jewish State in Palestine, great. If not, they were not likely to be rescued, and it's just as likely the Zionist movement would have tried to subvert their rescue if it was perceived to run contrary to the goal of establishing a Jewish State in Palestine.

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Jan 21

Through months of work in the archives, I have discovered and confirmed that in the middle of the Holocaust (1943-1944), Ben-Gurion's Jewish Agency blocked Britain's attempt to rescue >1,000 ultra-orthodox rabbis & their wives and children, because they were anti-Zionist.

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