Posted on 07/18/2015 11:48:43 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
The ship Exodus 1947 became a symbol of Aliya Bet — illegal immigration. After World War II, illegal immigration increased and the British authorities decided to stop it by sending the ships back to the ports of embarkation in Europe. The first ship to which this policy was applied was the Exodus 1947.
The ship sailed from the port of Site, near Marseilles, on July 11, 1947, with 4,515 immigrants, including 655 children, on board. As soon as it left the territorial waters of France, British destroyers accompanied it. On July 18, near the coast of Palestine but outside territorial waters, the British rammed the ship and boarded it, while the immigrants put up a desperate defense. Two immigrants and a crewman were killed in the battle, and 30 were wounded. The ship was towed to Haifa, where the immigrants were forced onto deportation ships bound for France. At Port-de-Bouc, in southern France, the would-be immigrants remained in the ships’ holds for 24 days during a heat wave, refusing to disembark despite the shortage of food, the crowding and the abominable sanitary conditions. The French government refused to force them off the boat. Eventually, the British decided to return the would-be immigrants to Germany, and on August 22 the ship left for the port of Hamburg, then in the British occupation zone. The immigrants were forcibly taken off and transported to two camps near Lubeck.
Journalists who covered the dramatic struggle described to the entire world the heartlessness and cruelty of the British. World public opinion was outraged and the British changed their policy. Illegal immigrants were not sent back to Europe; they were instead transported to detention camps in Cyprus.
The majority of the passengers on the Exodus 1947 settled in Israel, though some had to wait until after the establishment of the State of Israel.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/PhotosExodus.html
Andy Williams Sings “The Exodus Song (This Land Is Mine)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEYmomUuveU
I watched the 1960 film Exodus with Paul Newman a few months back just out of curiosity. A bit long, but interesting.
They probably mean Sète, not Site.
Interesting. Compare and contrast with present-day issues with illegal immigration in Australia, Europe and the USA.
Thanks ChildOfThe60s.
http://www.varchive.org/obs/index.htm
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The big difference is that the Jews were going back to their homeland.
Which most of them had been absent from for almost 2000 years.
This is, interestingly, probably a good deal less time than when the ancestors of the Aztecs may have lived in what is now the SW United States. Leading to the possibility that some at least of the illegal Mexican immigrants are simply returning to their ancestral home in Aztlan.
That ship was to good old Governor Warfield of the Old Bay Line out of Baltimore Md. That she even made it across the Atlantic strikes me as a miracle
the Mexicans haven’t been in prison camps getting gassed by the millions
It’s NOT illegal immigration when you are going to the land God expressly gave to you/
Speaking from a purely theoretical POV.
Group A slaughters Group B, which thereby obtains a right to land occupied by Group C.
How’s that again?
Gets complicated over a few thousand years, doesn’t it?
Yup.
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