How did the Holocaust affect support for Jewish immigration to Palestine?

The Holocaust—the systematic extermination of European Jews by the Nazis—profoundly intensified the urgency of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine as a necessary refuge for survivors.12

Following the war, the plight of Holocaust survivors became a central focus of international attention, leading many, particularly in the United States, to embrace Zionism. In 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman urged the British to facilitate the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish survivors into Palestine.12

Despite this, the British government maintained restrictions on immigration to preserve regional stability and Arab support, which led to clandestine immigration efforts and violent resistance from Zionist underground groups. The discovery of the scale of Jewish losses in Europe, coupled with the British failure to resolve the status of displaced survivors, ultimately pressured the British to turn the matter over to the United Nations, which subsequently proposed the partition of Palestine in 1947.1234