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06 Jan 2020
Steve Pieczenik claims that David Ben-Gurion negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to refuse 300,000 Jewish refugees from concentration camps.

Unless you learn your history, as you said, Alex, you're going to be a fool and you will just repeat the nonsense of Israel. Israel didn't take in any Holocaust Jews. They didn't want it. When Victorian was asked by Eichmann, who spoke Hebrew, he said, do you want 300 to 400,000 of these people in the camps? He said, no, I'd rather have pigs.

06 Jan 2020
Dan Friesen asserts that the claim of Ben-Gurion refusing refugees is historically false and contradicts Ben-Gurion's own statements about accepting 300,000 European Jews.

And one of the only places I can find that number is in an interview that Ben-Gurion did in March 1960, published in the spring 1997 issue of Israel Studies. In it, he says, quote, 12 years ago, the Jewish state was established. First, we took in 300,000 European Jews from the displaced persons camps. It's basically the opposite of what Steve is saying. Yeah, he's saying that we did. Right. I don't want to say that Steve is making this up, but I kind of think Steve is making this up. I do want to say that Steve is making it up. You can definitely make an argument that the non-Axis powers did not step up to help refugees who were in desperate need during World War II. And that argument has been made by many scholars, like David Wyman in his book, The Abandonment of the Jews. That's a fine discussion to have. And honestly, having that conversation should really make someone like Alex or Steve rethink their current positions on immigration. What's not okay is what Steve is doing. Unless he can cite his source on this alleged negotiation between David Ben-Gurion and Eichmann, then I have to assume this is just bullshit that's designed to rewrite the events of the Holocaust.