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Stop whitewashing FDR's abandonment of the Jews

Documents show that State Dep't officials briefed the president on their efforts to keep refugees out. FDR simply did not want Jews.Op-ed.

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Historian: New evidence shows FDR's bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president's anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler

We’ve known for a long time that thousands, if not millions, of Jews could have been saved if FDR wasn’t an antisemite. It’s becoming clearer and clearer how true that is.

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FDR's letter to the Palestine Pavilion at the World's Fair and the legality of Jewish settlements

n 1939, this letter by President Franklin Roosevelt was published by the organizers of the Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair....

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‘Incredible’! Thin-skinned constitutional dunce AOC tries to school Liz Cheney with fake news

At her town hall event on MSNBC Friday night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a lot of very stupid things. But this one blew them all out of the water:

She is such a moron. Soooooo dishonest. She’s not even good at lying. She isn’t smart enough to lie well. It’s just pathetic.

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Ocasio-Cortez falsely says GOP changed Constitution to block FDR from re-election

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez incorrectly asserted that Republicans amended the Constitution to stop former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from being re-elected

I keep sayin this: But this is the dumbest person in the United States Congress. She isn't well educated, she doesn't undertand basic facts about history, economics or our political system and is incapable of thinking critically.

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FDR wanted Jews ‘spread thin’ and kept out of U.S., documents reveal

New documents revealed by the FDR library shows the president's secret plans to resettle Jews out of Europe.

FDR doesn't deserve the almost mythical hero status he has in some quarters for many reasons. These are just the latest. He was a serious bigot and thousands of Jew died needlessly because, when it came down to it, couldn't care less about what happened to us. Yet millions of American Jews STILL believe that he represented some kind of progressive friend to the Jews.

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Betrayal: FDR and the Jews | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Like everyone else I knew in the Forest Hills of my boyhood, my parents were the American–born children of immigrants from Eastern Europe. But my grandparents, who left Russia and Romania in their desperate quest for freedom, opportunity and children wh

This is particularly interesting if you watched the VERY idealized Ken Burns documentary about the Roosevelts.