Thread by @_ZachFoster

How Zionists prolonged the suffering of Jewish Holocaust survivors, 1945-1948. A 🧵

After WWII, 250K liberated Jews found themselves in Displaced Person (DP) camps in Europe. The Zionists prevented their rescue to destinations other than Palestine, despite abysmal living conditions in the camps, despite offers of resettlement & despite the desire of many to go.

The British gov. accepted 1,000 Jewish children survivors in the late summer 1945, but only about 300 of them made it.

The British army flew the children to England & “did everything they could to ease up matters...It is possible that no other group of immigrants ever entered this country with a more favorable welcome.”

They settled into dormitories in the UK w/beds of “crisp white sheets” & “little bowls of sweets…placed on the nightstands.”

Sources: archive.org/details/inshad…
historyextra.com/period/second-…

What about the remaining 700 Jewish children holocaust survivors?

David Ben-Gurion, the leader of the Zionists, exerted significant influence over the DP camp leadership, compelling them to refuse to allow the children to leave.

One of the teenage boys who was brought to England described the conditions of those left behind:

“People were dying like so many flies,” he recalled. “A lot of people had dysentery and were too weak to use the toilets. We could barely distinguish the living from the dead.”

The children were suffering from food shortages, overcrowding and an almost complete lack of heating.

But to no avail. The Zionist movement said it was Palestine, or nothing.

sources: historyextra.com/period/second-…

The Zionist movement even used the “walking skeleton” photos of the survivors in their fundraising campaign materials all the while they denied those very same walking skeletons a path to a better life (source: cambridge.org/core/books/lif…)

For the Zionists, Jewish bodies were needed in the demographic war against the native population of Palestine, no matter how emaciated those Jewish bodies would become.

In 1946, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, attacked the Zionists for abandoning the holocaust survivors:

“Why in God’s name should the fate of all these unhappy people be subordinated to the single cry of Statehood? I cannot rid myself of the feeling that the unfortunate Jews of Europe’s D.P. camps are helpless hostages for whom statehood has been made the only ransom.”
web.archive.org/web/2025021805…

There were multiple other attempts to rescue Jewish holocaust survivors from the Displaced Persons camps by US, British & French Jews.

But the Zionist leadership in Palestine opted not for Jewish prosperity but for Jewish suffering in which child holocaust survivors served as sacrificial lambs on the altar of a higher mission.

The Jewish refugees may have just survived a holocaust, and they may have been living in squalid conditions, and they may have had hopes and dreams to start a new life or reunite with family or resettle in their countries of origin.

But none of that was relevant. Their bodies were needed to wage a demographic war in Palestine. There were simply too many Arabs and not enough Jews in Palestine.

And that is how the Zionists transformed thousands of Jewish holocaust survivors into demographic hostages.

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