ChrisL
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I think we are talking about two different things. You're referring to Jewish immigration to Palestine and building the nation of Israel. I was talking about Jewish refugees fleeing WW2 and, prior to that the huge influx of eastern European and Russian Jews and the reluctance of the US to take them in. The same sort of reluctance Muslims are meeting with, and prior to that Chinese and Japanese. In the case of the Jews they were linked with the anarchist movements a very real terrorist threat at the time and provoked the same outrage, xenophobia and hate.
In the end, we forget the anarchists, bombers and 'lone wolves'. But the hysteria they provoke stays with us | Jeff Sparrow
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The stage is the same, the script is the same, the players change.
Germany started WWI and unfortunately germans has infiltrated the US. A ship of germans, even though jews, was a danger.
US was not at that time prepared to take in the refugees, or deal with more anti-semitism because of their presence. War was the priority facing the US.
In hind sight it was wrong to turn them away, but at the time it made sense to the US. It was a time of running rounding up germans and interning them, also japanese.
It was a policy created out of fear and it was horrible - the internment of the Japanese. I don't think they found any or very little evidence of Japanese spies amongst Japanese Americans. Certainly not enough to support the actions. We should never complacently condone it or it will happen again and again. Same with taking in refugees. We can't take them all, but we can certainly take more.
Putting the lack of hospitality to the ship of German jews in context.
I don't know where she gets that crazy idea. I haven't seen anyone suggest such a thing. I certainly said nothing about imprisoning innocent people or genocide.
What does that have to do with the conversation in this post??
You talking about the internment of the Japanese and accusing people of provoking genocide? What does THAT have to do with anything, when nobody mentioned any such thing.