I think it is necessary to state here - Zionism is above everything. They will say that I am anti-Semitic, that I don’t want to save the Exile, that I don’t have a “varm Yiddishe hartz”. Let them say what they want. I will not demand the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.

Yitzhak Gruenbaum (Zionist leader) stated in a debate about the rescue of Jews in Europe in Tel Aviv, 1942