2025-07-08 21:11 <br/> Tags: #EarlyZionism #AmericanJewry #Event ![[image-45.png|541x334]] *David Ben Gurion speaking in the center. Photo of Theodore Herzl on the wall. * # Biltmore Program - A product of the 1942 Biltmore Conference held at the luxury Biltmore Hotel in New York City. - The conference was a meeting of hundreds of Zionist leaders for the purpose of reorienting the Zionist movement away from Britain and towards the United States. - The British White Paper of 1939 which restricted Jewish immigration and land acquisition, caused huge uproar within Zionism and increased anti-British Jewish Terror. - Section six of the Program states: "The Conference affirms its unalterable rejection of the White Paper of May 1939 and denies its moral or legal validity." - Section eight states: "The Conference urges that the gates of Palestine be opened; that the Jewish Agency be vested with control of immigration into Palestine and with the necessary authority for upbuilding the country, including the development of its unoccupied and uncultivated lands; and that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth integrated in the structure of the new democratic world. Then and only then will the age old wrong to the Jewish people be righted." - #RedPill *That last sentence is the constant among the variables. Jews assert they deserve a state to "right an age old wrong." What is the wrong? Who did it? It can be assumed to be a European wrong given Zionism is a product of European Jewry. European can just as easily be replaced with Christian/white. Jewish dissatisfaction and even hatred for Christian Europe is always just below the surface of diplomatic platitudes.* - The Conference served as a substitute for the usual Zionist Congress of the [[World Zionist Organization]], which was cancelled due to WWII. - Notable individuals at the conference included: - [[David Ben-Gurion]] with the [[Jewish Agency]] - [[Chaim Weizmann]] with the [[World Zionist Organization]] - [[Nahum Goldmann]] with the [[Jewish Agency]] and [[World Jewish Congress]] - Rabbi [[Stephen S. Wise]] - Rabbi [[Abba Hillel Silver]] - [[Emanuel Neumann]] - [[Abba Hillel Silver]] and [[Emanuel Neumann]] were the primary American Zionists arguing for Zionism to focus on creating a Jewish state instead of focusing on European wartime rescue efforts. #### References - Wikipedia, s.v. _“Biltmore Conference,”_ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Conference). - American‑Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, _“Zionist Congresses: The Biltmore Conference (May 6 – 11, 1942),”_ Jewish Virtual Library, [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-biltmore-conference-1942](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-biltmore-conference-1942). - Center for Israel Education, _“The Biltmore Program, 1942,”_ Israel – Diaspora Education, [https://israeled.org/biltmore-program/](https://israeled.org/biltmore-program/). - “An Extraordinary Zionist Conference. New York, 1942.” _Israel Forever Blog_. [https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/an_extraordinary_zionist_conference_new_york_1942/](https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/an_extraordinary_zionist_conference_new_york_1942/) - “Mideast Web. “The Biltmore Program of the Zionist Leadership – 1942.” [http://www.mideastweb.org/biltmore_program.htm](http://www.mideastweb.org/biltmore_program.htm)