Ofer Aderet : The Zionist Jewish Selection: The Movement Rejected Jewish Migrants Deemed Too Weak or Sick
1948:brutti ricordi articolo completo qui Alas, Zionism can’t provide a solution for catastrophes. That’s what Chaim Weizmann said in 1919, explaining why the gates of pre-state Israel couldn’t be opened to thousands of survivors of Ukrainian pogroms who were begging for asylum here. The man who three decades later would become Israel’s first president added that he didn’t think these refugees had the enormous constructive powers needed to build a national home for the Jewish people. Prof. Gur Alroey, a historian at the University of Haifa, calls this callousness. “Weizmann preferred productive immigrants over needy refugees and thought the Land of Israel needed strong, healthy immigrants, not refugees weak in body and spirit,” Alroey says. A larger group of immigrants have been deliberately omitted from the history books – survivors of pogroms and riots, orphans, widows, rape victims, famine survivors, bankrupts and others “Jews who didn’t fit his model and knocked on the doors of