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  • 3 - American Liberals and Leftists Support Zionist Aspirations, 1945–1947

  • Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    Israel's Moment
    Published online:
    13 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 69-105

  • Summary

    Though support for Zionist aspirations in the United States from 1945 to 1947 included some prominent members of the Republican Party, the strongest, most persistent support came from liberals, left liberals, and leftists responding to the Holocaust and World War II. The chapter examines writings by Richard Crossman, Freda Kirchwey, I. F. Stone, Alexander Uhl, Henry Wallace, and Sumner Welles in The Nation, PM, and The New Republic.

  • 6 - The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War, and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947

  • Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    Israel's Moment
    Published online:
    13 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 153-191

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the Jewish Agency’s Mossad’s Brichah, Hebrew for “escape,” for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Europe who wanted to go to Palestine, as well as efforts of the British foreign minister Ernest Bevin to enlist the assistance of the US State Department to discourage Americans from assisting that Jewish immigration. British and American diplomats and intelligence officials feared that Brichah would enhance Soviet efforts to infiltrate communist agents into Palestine. American liberals denounced efforts the “red scare” of associating Zionism with communism.