Most people confuse Zionism with Judaism. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Zionists, recognizing the impossibility of successfully struggling against anti-Semitism, began to think of Jews withdrawing from the various European societies and resettling in Palestine. Wealthy anti-Semites agreed to help finance the re-settling of the Jews.
As a result of their agenda, the Zionists often found themselves collaborating with fascists, including the Nazis. They aligned themselves with Europe’s Jew-haters to gather financial and military assistance for a Zionist colony in Palestine. The World Zionist Organization Congress in 1933 defeated a resolution calling for action against Hitler by a vote of 240 to 43.
In 1934, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, praised the Zionists. In May 1935, Reinhardt Heydrich, the chief of the SS Security Service, wrote an article in which he separated Jews into “two categories.” The Jews he favored were the Zionists.
Why would the Zionists collaborate with the Nazis and betray the Jews of Europe? The rationale offered by Zionists is that Palestine would serve as a refuge for Jews, a place they would be safe from the hatred of the rest of the world.
The Zionists wanted to make the lives of Jews in the various European countries so uncomfortable that they would happily agree to leave their homes and settle in Israel.
The Zionists saw any effort to rescue Europe’s Jews not as the fulfillment of their political purpose but as a threat to their entire movement. If Europe’s Jews were saved, they would wish to go elsewhere and the rescue operation would have nothing to do with the Zionist project of conquering and inhabiting Palestine.
Therefore, when the U.S. and Western Europe were contemplating changing their immigration laws in order to accommodate Jews fleeing from the Nazi terror, it was the Zionists who organized and fought against such changes.
David Ben-Gurion informed a meeting of Labor Zionists in Great Britain in 1938: “If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”
The Zionist movement was not at all interested in saving the lives of Jews facing extermination, they had a greater purpose, one that transcended the lives of individual Jews.
From 1933 to 1935, the WZO (World Zionist Organization) turned down two-thirds of all the German Jews who applied for immigration certificates.
As late as 1943, while the Jews of Europe were being exterminated in the millions, the US Congress proposed to set up a commission to “study” the problem. Rabbi Stephen Wise, who was the principal American spokesperson for Zionism, came to Washington to testify against the rescue bill because it would divert attention from the colonization of Palestine. Giving Jews the option of where to resettle was a threat to the Zionist’s obsessive desire to have Jews migrate to Palestine. The goal was to gather enough Jews so that they outnumbered the Arab population and, therefore, would control the country militarily, politically and economically.
The Zionist’s ruthless pursuit of a Jewish state in Palestine did not begin in the 1930s. In 1924, Jacob Israel de Haan, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a staunch anti-Zionist, a poet, journalist, teacher and an openly gay man was assassinated by the Zionist leadership. De Haan was the political secretary and spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox community in Palestine whose activity supporting equality and co-existence with the Arab population was a danger to the Zionist project in Palestine.
Following his assassination, the Zionist Jewish Agency limited Jewish immigration to Israel by providing certificates only to Zionist Jews. This policy continued, as well, during the Holocaust. Evidently, Jewish lives didn’t matter.
The above history of Zionism is important because it helps us understand that this movement is separate and apart from Judaism. Zionism is a political entity, not a religious one, and its credo has alienated many Jews worldwide who do not accept Israel as a Jewish state and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a justifiable policy.
The Zionist collaboration with the Nazis is indicative of the fact that their primary goal was and is the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and that millions of Jewish lives were and are expendable in their quest to achieve this goal.
In light of this history, one can easily see that their present policies and willingness to slaughter thousands of unarmed citizens is consistent with who they are and the core of their agenda.
Despite this history, many naively continue to call for negotiations between Israel and Palestine, something the Israelis have sabotaged for decades. When the goal is and has been the complete control of Greater Israel, what is there to negotiate? Because of Israel’s purposeful settlement expansion, a two-state solution is no longer viable. Quite honestly, it never was viable.
The only rational agreement would be a one-state solution where Palestinians receive their right of return and assume full citizenship, and all the rights that go with that, alongside the Jewish community. The notion of a Jewish state is unworkable unless one agrees with the Zionist policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Soft or tender Zionism is inherently a contradiction to the Zionist project.
You cannot have it both ways!
Dave Alpert has masters degrees in social work, educational administration, and psychology. He spent his career working with troubled inner city adolescents.
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Zionism does not = Judaism; anti-Israel does not = anti-Semitism
Posted on October 27, 2015 by Dave Alpert
Most people confuse Zionism with Judaism. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Zionists, recognizing the impossibility of successfully struggling against anti-Semitism, began to think of Jews withdrawing from the various European societies and resettling in Palestine. Wealthy anti-Semites agreed to help finance the re-settling of the Jews.
As a result of their agenda, the Zionists often found themselves collaborating with fascists, including the Nazis. They aligned themselves with Europe’s Jew-haters to gather financial and military assistance for a Zionist colony in Palestine. The World Zionist Organization Congress in 1933 defeated a resolution calling for action against Hitler by a vote of 240 to 43.
In 1934, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, praised the Zionists. In May 1935, Reinhardt Heydrich, the chief of the SS Security Service, wrote an article in which he separated Jews into “two categories.” The Jews he favored were the Zionists.
Why would the Zionists collaborate with the Nazis and betray the Jews of Europe? The rationale offered by Zionists is that Palestine would serve as a refuge for Jews, a place they would be safe from the hatred of the rest of the world.
The Zionists wanted to make the lives of Jews in the various European countries so uncomfortable that they would happily agree to leave their homes and settle in Israel.
The Zionists saw any effort to rescue Europe’s Jews not as the fulfillment of their political purpose but as a threat to their entire movement. If Europe’s Jews were saved, they would wish to go elsewhere and the rescue operation would have nothing to do with the Zionist project of conquering and inhabiting Palestine.
Therefore, when the U.S. and Western Europe were contemplating changing their immigration laws in order to accommodate Jews fleeing from the Nazi terror, it was the Zionists who organized and fought against such changes.
David Ben-Gurion informed a meeting of Labor Zionists in Great Britain in 1938: “If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”
The Zionist movement was not at all interested in saving the lives of Jews facing extermination, they had a greater purpose, one that transcended the lives of individual Jews.
From 1933 to 1935, the WZO (World Zionist Organization) turned down two-thirds of all the German Jews who applied for immigration certificates.
As late as 1943, while the Jews of Europe were being exterminated in the millions, the US Congress proposed to set up a commission to “study” the problem. Rabbi Stephen Wise, who was the principal American spokesperson for Zionism, came to Washington to testify against the rescue bill because it would divert attention from the colonization of Palestine. Giving Jews the option of where to resettle was a threat to the Zionist’s obsessive desire to have Jews migrate to Palestine. The goal was to gather enough Jews so that they outnumbered the Arab population and, therefore, would control the country militarily, politically and economically.
The Zionist’s ruthless pursuit of a Jewish state in Palestine did not begin in the 1930s. In 1924, Jacob Israel de Haan, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a staunch anti-Zionist, a poet, journalist, teacher and an openly gay man was assassinated by the Zionist leadership. De Haan was the political secretary and spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox community in Palestine whose activity supporting equality and co-existence with the Arab population was a danger to the Zionist project in Palestine.
Following his assassination, the Zionist Jewish Agency limited Jewish immigration to Israel by providing certificates only to Zionist Jews. This policy continued, as well, during the Holocaust. Evidently, Jewish lives didn’t matter.
The above history of Zionism is important because it helps us understand that this movement is separate and apart from Judaism. Zionism is a political entity, not a religious one, and its credo has alienated many Jews worldwide who do not accept Israel as a Jewish state and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a justifiable policy.
The Zionist collaboration with the Nazis is indicative of the fact that their primary goal was and is the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and that millions of Jewish lives were and are expendable in their quest to achieve this goal.
In light of this history, one can easily see that their present policies and willingness to slaughter thousands of unarmed citizens is consistent with who they are and the core of their agenda.
Despite this history, many naively continue to call for negotiations between Israel and Palestine, something the Israelis have sabotaged for decades. When the goal is and has been the complete control of Greater Israel, what is there to negotiate? Because of Israel’s purposeful settlement expansion, a two-state solution is no longer viable. Quite honestly, it never was viable.
The only rational agreement would be a one-state solution where Palestinians receive their right of return and assume full citizenship, and all the rights that go with that, alongside the Jewish community. The notion of a Jewish state is unworkable unless one agrees with the Zionist policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Soft or tender Zionism is inherently a contradiction to the Zionist project.
You cannot have it both ways!
Dave Alpert has masters degrees in social work, educational administration, and psychology. He spent his career working with troubled inner city adolescents.