Worth knowing that most of the immigration preceded the Holocaust, and Palestinians treated them as illegal immigrants (which they were), not as invaders.

Look, that same refugee trope founding myth is what north America used with the pilgrims, so it’s beneficial to deconstruct that. Because it is the same founding myth of Israel.

It’s also worth reading early writings from Zionists about the “type” of Jewish people the Zionists wanted for the new state. They basically believed that the refugees were too poor and of the wrong mentality - essentially tainting what they were trying to build. Literally a screening office was setup to allow or disallow certain types of Jews. Zionists only acquiesced because they needed more people to bolster their numbers and reasons for expansion

https://palestinenexus.com/articles/eugenicism

From the late 19th century through the 1950s, Zionist leaders adopted a selective immigration policy designed to exclude ‘undesirable’ Jews. The goal of the Zionist movement was to build a Jewish state in a Palestinian Arab land, and that required Jewish capitalists, skilled laborers, professionals and fighters, not children, elderly people or refugees. The Zionist leadership rejected persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly Jews because they were persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly. They instead prioritized what they called “halutzim,” or young, healthy Zionist ideologues willing to sacrifice their youth, capital, labor and life for the cause. This is the eugenist history of Zionism, in brief.