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Mass immigration to Israel from USSR was true though. Stalin was also irked that Israel didn't go communist. So their fears were well founded at that time

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Their fears were well-founded only if you use the hateful and twisted "logic" that the USSR used at the time.

My American university provided lots of financial aid to international students. Need-blind! Many of these students came from countries with very un-American political systems. And many of them simply returned to their home countries after college.

And yet these students did not have to go through the Kafka-esque (and just plain wrong) system that this author describes. They were treated like everyone else.

You have to understand the place the time this "logic" was applied. America was not brutally attacked twice with a span of couple of decades. America did not loose 30 million people in resource/territorial aggressions. America was not surrounded by technologically and economically advanced nations salivating at its riches.

The mass immigration began only after the USSR collapsed - until then the Soviets denied most Jews from leaving the country, so it wasn't really a rational fear.

Nope. There were several migration waves of Jews from USSR. First one in the 70's fueled the hate against the ones who stayed.

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