What the world was doing while Jews fled Europe for Israel

While many surviving Jews fled Europe to Israel after the Holocaust, much of the rest of the world had either…

~ Perpetrated it — Germany, Romania, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Fascist Italy

~ Collaborated with it — Vichy France, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Greece, parts of Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and Poland

~ Stood aside — Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey

~ Fought Germany, but did not prioritize rescuing Jews — United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union

~ Restricted or refused Jewish refugees — United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, and most Évian Conference states

~ Restricted Jewish escape to Palestine — United Kingdom

~ Opposed or fought the creation of a Jewish state — Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

And if your country somehow escapes that list but sits in the New World, there is a good chance your own society was built through conquest and settlement of somebody else’s homeland.

Jews, meanwhile, are a people whose history, religion, language, archaeology, and ancestry all originate in Judea.

So spare us the lectures about the supposed moral stain of Jews establishing a state there 80 years ago. Much of the world had just murdered them, helped murder them, abandoned them, shut its doors to them, or fought to prevent them from having a country of their own. And many of the people now shouting “colonizer” live on continents colonized far more recently by their own societies.

Seriously: STFU.