Actually, it's "the U.S. and Canada SHOULD have done the decent thing and granted refugee status for everyone fleeing from Hitler". Most of the founding generation of Zionists had been in the Mandate of Palestine for decades prior to the rise of Hitler, and the only reason any significant number of Holocaust survivors ended up there was that Britain, the U.S. and Canada, as well as Australia and New Zealand, the places that could have given them a new home, continued to bar them from emigrating even after they knew what had happened in Europe-leaving those horribly traumatized people no choice but either to stay in the DP(Displaced Persons) camps the Allies had consigned them to, or to move to the Mandate. The worst part of the injustice done to Palestinians is, in insisting on creating the State of Israel, those countries ended up effectively punishing Palestinians for THEIR crimes. The Jewish communities of Europe had no alternative but to try and escape Europe in the 1933-45, and it was entirely reasonable for them to wish to live virtually anywhere else- but it SHOULD have been the North American countries, both of which were prosperous and unscathed by the war, that should have taken in the survivors of those communities, that, indeed, had a moral obligation to take them in and give them immediate citizenship- they should not have been forced to move to what was about to become israel and Palestinians, who were completely blameless for what Hitler had done. should never have been displaced as atonement for the crimes of the countries that denied the Jews of Europe sanctuary in their hour of most desperate need.