2025-07-29 09:19 <br/> Tags: #Network #EarlyZionism #AmericanJewry #Lobby # Bergson Group (1940-48) - The Bergson Group was the nucleus of [[Irgun and Lehi Zionist Paramilitary Organizations|Irgun]] activity in the U.S. during the 1940s. - The group was a loose collective network of Irgun operatives and sympathetic Jews using their influence within the US. - The group's purpose was the formation of a Jewish fighting force during WWII, increased Jewish immigration to Palestine, raising funds for the Irgun, and building a U.S.-based support network for the Irgun. - The group was formed by [[Hillel Kook]], the top Irgun operative in the U.S. in the 40s. - Kook changed his name to Peter Bergson when he arrived in the U.S. for the purpose of blending in. His assumed name 'Bergson' is the namesake for the network. ![[THE MATRIX/Images/images 2/image-2.png|204x288]] *Hillel Kook "Peter Bergson" leader of the group* - The group was [[Revisionist Zionism|Revisionist Zionist]] in ideology. - Bergsonites included: [[Aryeh Ben-Eliezer]], [[Yitzhak Ben-Ami]], [[Shmuel Merlin]], and the son of [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]], Eri Jabotinsky. - The group had initially accompanied [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]] to the U.S. in 1940. That same year Jabotinsky died and the aforementioned figures assumed his activities for the Irgun. - The group used mass propaganda, large public rallies, and political lobbying. - Kook managed to recruit famous Jewish Hollywood director [[Ben Hecht]] to work for the group. - [[Ben Hecht]] wrote the show/ceremony "We Will Never Die" which served as the center of a huge 1943 Bergson Group rally at Madison Sq Garden. - The rally was attended by 40,000 people and was essentially a Jewish fantasy. - Famous Jewish actors and public figures took part along with hundreds of rabbis performing Jewish rites. The show was about the alleged mass murder of Jews taking place in Europe at the time. - The show, and other separate Bergson group publications, were the first time many of the public were convinced of Nazi Holocaust. - The show was performed in six cities total and seen by all the power players of the day (Congress, White House, Supreme Court). - The Bergson group operated via numerous Irgun front organizations including: - [[Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe]] - [[American League for a Free Palestine (ALFP)]] - [[American Friends of a Jewish Palestine (AFJP)]] - [[Hebrew Committee for National Liberation (HCNL)]] - [[Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews]] ![[THE MATRIX/Images/images 2/image-1.png|384x384]] *1943 march on the US Capitol by hundreds of rabbis organized by the Emergency Committee * - The group used mass propaganda shaming FDR's government for inaction regarding the Jewish situation in Europe. - The [[Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe]], one of the group's many front organizations, was responsible for this very early Holocaust alarmism. - The Emergency Committee used marches involving hundreds of rabbis to pressure the FDR government. - FDR's Treasury department under [[Henry Morgenthau Jr.]] worked hand in glove with the Bergsonites (moniker for members of the group) to pressure the President. - Eventually these continued Jewish efforts led to the creation of the "War Refugee Board." - The purpose of the WRB was saving European Jewry from the Nazis. #RedPill *We see the first people to expose the U.S. public to the idea of the Holocaust were themselves Jewish extremists intensely working to form a Jewish state. We also know the American public and government at the time were not enthusiastic about forming a Jewish state. Now could it be that these deceptive Jewish operatives exploited alleged information coming out of a war ravished continent to further their goals? Is it possible that the idea of a Holocaust became a useful means to the ends of a Jewish state? And after that, became both an indispensable fixture of Jewish victimhood and the explanation behind Jewish action of the past 80 years?* ## Recommended Reading Against Out Better Judgement - Alison Weir #### References - Weir, Alison. _Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel_. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. - **“Hillel Kook.”** _Wikipedia_. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook). - **“Ben Hecht.”** _Wikipedia_. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht). - Medoff, Rafael. **“The 1943 Jewish March on Washington, through the Eyes of Its Critics.”** _AJS Perspectives_, Association for Jewish Studies. - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson) and the Bergson Group.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/peter-bergson