Did they tell Jews to go back to Palestine in the 1940s?

Who is “they”? The first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine with the ideal of founding a Jewish homeland was in the early 1900s (the first immigrants were primarily from Russia, fleeing from a series of anti-Semitic progroms there). read more

Germans and other Europeans told Jews to go back to Palestine from the 1930s into the 1940s. We re-established Israel in 1948 and went back to Israel. To this very day, it still pisses people off. read more

With resolution 181, a modification to the UNSCOP proposal, Palestine was to be divided into A Jewish state on 56 % of Palestine, an Arab State on 43%, and an international zone surrounding Jerusalem. read more

An official census late that year counted 759,952 Muslims, 90,607 Christians (mostly Arab Christians) and 175,006 Jews. Jews were now 17 percent of the population. Then came the Great Depression. And in 1933 in Germany, Hitler came to power. Hostility toward Jews intensified not only in Germany but in Poland and Romania. read more