On July 11, 1947, The Exodus (formerly The Packet Steamer SS President Warfield) Was Intercepted By The

On July 11, 1947, the Exodus (formerly the packet steamer SS President Warfield) was intercepted by the British Navy off the coast of Haifa. The ship was carrying 4,500 Jewish men, women and children, virtually all of them Holocaust survivors. The ship was escorted into port, where the exhausted bedraggled passengers were transferred to three other ships, Ocean Vigour, Empire Rival and Runnymede Park and, quite incredibly, returned to Germany (after first docking in France where, on the advice of the Haganah, the passengers refused to disembark). They were then placed in DP (displaced persons) camps. Try to imagine the sheer horror of being returned to Germany after surviving the Holocaust. By the time Israel declared independence, most (by various means) were able to complete the journey they had begun in hope the previous year. The second vessel is one of four new state-of-the-art Sa'ar 6 warships that will patrol Israel's coastline and protect its people for many years to come.

Likud Herut UK

When discussing why autistic people should exist too often I see people talk non-stop about the accomplishments of autistic people. How about the fact that we're human.

This goes for any minority group whose existence is questioned.

Let's talk about appropriation of Judaism, and hijacking Jewish history

"According to Halacha, Jews who abandon their Jewishness by choice become 'meshumadim' (An example being messianic "jews" of Jewish ancestry). Though Jewish by lineage, they cannot claim any privilege pertaining to Jewish status. To make it simple: if we don't claim you, you don't get to claim us."

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Thanks to it being Nakba Day, I woke up to a Vox on why those evil cruel Je-we mean Zionists destroyed the poor helpless Palestinians! Discussions of the 1948 war are where nuance go to die: on the one side we have Jews who have no particular belief that non-Jews anywhere would support their right to exist (as Jews or as, you know, alive people) aggressively asserting the continued existence of Israel (and in the process displacing many Palestinians) and on the other we have Arabs in Mandate Palestine who wish for self-determination in the land they consider home, who decide to defend that self-determination by advocating for genocidal ethnic cleansing of Jews, supported by Arab armies much stronger than anything the Haganah or anyone else could put forward. Nobody's hands were clean in those days

I sometimes ask "just-critics" what they think would have happened to the Jews if they'd lost in 1948 (or 67 or 73). Without fail, they get mad and dodge the question - or straight-up assert all the Zio colonizers would have deserved it and still do.

There can be no judgment of 1948 that leaves out Hebron 1929, leaves out Evian 1938, Husseini and Qaukji allying with Nazi Germany, "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre that will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades." Europe still keeping the Jews in Dachau under German guards, America still keeping immigration restrictions. There would have been no refugee camps, no UNRWA, for the Jews of Palestine. They would have been exterminated down to the last baby. There can be no commemorating the Nakba without acknowledging that.