Post-Holocaust guilt over admitting only 110,000 Jewish refugees drove the mainstreaming of Judeo-Christian identity.

Evidence

That the United States had failed to open its borders to Jews fleeing from Hitler’s final solution, admitting merely 110,000 Jewish refugees, became a source of national shame once the world discovered the gravity of the Holocaust. Many White Anglo-Saxon Americans came to the realization that anti-Semitism was a cancer capable of destroying societies, including their own. Adopting a Judeo-Christian identity became a mainstream political project. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 437

Categorization

• XREF: The 110,000 refugee figure parallels America’s later narrow Muslim refugee admissions and the pattern of shame deferred until too late. — connects to: The Judeo-Christian concept emerged around WWII partly to expel Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229
• SEED: Article angle: how nations retroactively feel shame about closed borders only after catastrophe is revealed, and what that implies for current Muslim refugee policy.