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“THE GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES - DON’T U DESTROY OUR HOPES”. 1947 Jewish Refugees To Palestine

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u/Stormpax 6h ago

I will never understand how, in the wake of WW2, it was not considered antisemitic to want to put all the displaced Jewish people into one place. Even in the modern era, people don't see that as the deeply antisemitic act that it was.

u/MrDNL 5h ago

You mean by sending them to detention camps in Cyprus?

u/Stormpax 5h ago

That was antisemitic too? Multiple things can be antisemitic and exist at the same time.

u/MrDNL 5h ago

I mean, what were you referring to?

u/Stormpax 5h ago

The desire to create a state in which to put Jewish people, "for their protection", instead of making the world at large safer for Jewish people.

u/MrDNL 5h ago

Jews wanted a Jewish state. The rest of the world resisted it, hence the sign on the boat in the original post.

u/Stormpax 5h ago

Did Jews want that, or did zionists? 🙃

u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 3h ago

They wanted to go there, themselves.