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Additionally, Hoover played a significant role in the decision to include a plank in the 1944 Republican Party platform urging the rescue of Europe’s Jews and supporting Jewish statehood in the British mandate of Palestine. It was the first time in American history that either major political party took such stands, and it forced the Democrats to adopt similar language at their convention later that year.
As a result, support for Zionism and Israel became a permanent part of both parties’ platforms and a cornerstone of American political culture – and has remained so, even when challenged in recent years by another ex-president.
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