Let’s review: The Bergson group (or the Bergson boys) were a small group of Palestinian Jews, led by Peter Bergson, many of whom participated in illegal immigration movements to Palestine in the late 1930s. They came to the United States and formed a series of organizations, each of which solicited a massive number of non-Jewish, public, support. Their work was mainly in the field of public relations. They advanced whatever agenda they had by gaining influential supporters–like Congressmen, who could turn an agenda into legislation–or by gaining public support, which allowed them to argue that their agenda was actually the agenda of the majority of the American people. Most of the Jewish organizations (the Joint, the AJCongress, the AJCommittee) disliked the Bergsons, feeling their organizations were distractions and deviated public attention and donations.  Moreover, the donations they raised through their full-page ads in major American newspapers were put towards more ads, not towards rescue, which most of the Jewish organizations felt was misleading.

There was the Committee for a Jewish Army, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jews of Europe (and a few others before that), and, on May 17, 1944, the inauguration of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.

This Committee went a bit further than the others. Peter Bergson had previously explained that there was something different between his group and the American Jewish organizations.  American Jews were Jews who were Americans, while he himself was a Hebrew.  A Hebrew was a Jew without national allegiance. So the Hebrew Committee was not for American Jews.  Instead, the Bergsons bought a huge home on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, inaugurated the Hebrew Committee, and opened a Hebrew Embassy.  They declared themselves the voice of Hebrews–Jews in Palestine and (more importantly) persecuted Jews in Europe.  They were the self-appointed ambassadors, and this was their embassy. You can’t make this up.