WHY do Jews IDOLIZE FDR when he sent the ship St. Louis full of Jews BACK to EUROPE!!! Really.....I don’t get it.
“WHY do Jews IDOLIZE FDR when he sent the ship St. Louis full of Jews BACK to EUROPE!!! Really.....I don’t get it.”
Because the Republicans of the day were largely isolationists or openly supported Hitler.
Not really a mystery.
I'm Jewish and I don't get it either. The idolization of Franklin D. Roosevelt is largely a result of historical mythology handed down trough the generations in too many Jewish families.
Even aside from the infamous St. Louis affair, the Roosevelt Administration's record on aiding desperate European Jews trying to survive against Nazi geocidal policy was generally abysmal. This is the subject of a book written by Arthur D. Morse titled "While 6 Million Died," published back in the 1960s.
Aside from that, Roosevelt made antisemitic remarks off the record to reporters, some of which later came to light after he died. (He was careful not to let them out to the public, lest it hurt him with Jewish voters.) He also boasted privately that he, as a powerful Harvard alumnus, was instrumental in his alma mater's adoption of a strict quota on university admissions of Jewish students in the 1920s.