"ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION" was Jabotinsly's initiative, he suggested to become the Jewish people’s National Sport! His aim was to save the life of any Jew, young, old... Who opposed such initiative? “Left Zionism”! Moshe Shertok (later called Sharett and second prime minister of Israel) wrote and made fun: "the wolfs (Jabotinsky's Revisionists) are accepting everyone; the blind, the lame, and a full retirement of old people...Give us the good, and leave the rabble behind" (Tom Segev - The Seventh Million) By "the good" Shertok meant ,I suppose, Marxist educated young people! The rest was rabble!

Really who were the fund raisers who raised the funds that bought this and other ships?
Really who was the requistions officer in the USA who purchased and outfitted this and other ships?
Really who were the crew who manned the helm of this and other ships?
To give medals to the DPs and survuvors is a very nice thing...but it does an injustice to the memories of the Hagana men and women who risked their loves to save Jews!
Let's not discriminate...let's not 4get that Etzel/Lehi also have a part in this story.

In other words it is time to recognize all of the Jews who saved other Jews....

The white papers were illegal and against the laws of the British mandate under league nations supreme court rules and the San remote agreements,