Baldseagull
Well-known member
It's not right to lump all forms of zionism into one. As far as I know, only the Stern Gang made attempts to form some arrangement with Nazis, and that was in order to attack the British, not persecute Jews.I have been pretty naïve politically, in not realising that AIPAC used to be AZPAC. They changed their name from American Zionist Public Affairs Committee to American Israeli PAC. I never knew this until I Googled it recently. They have conflated Zionism into Israel and therefore any criticism is obviously anti-semetic except it isn’t. Zionists allied with the NAZIs to persecute Jews because their aim was a homeland for Jews and any Jews that didn’t share their ideal were expendable. They have manipulated public opinion to the extent that any criticism of the Israeli Government is perceived to be anti-semetic even if it comes from Jews.
From the other end, I have seen some suggestion that Nazis tried to arrange with Palestinian Jewish leaders to enable them to ship European Jews forcibly to Palestine.
I believe the official line from Jewish leaders at the time, was to fight the Nazis like there were no British, and fight the British like there was no war.
There are zionists that completely disagree with there being an Israeli state, and zionists that want an entirely Jewish state, zionist Christians, and a lot of Jews that are waiting for a messiah to lead them into Israel and think its wrong to try and go back till he gets here.
I will agree that currently there is an issue with Israeli Government trying to expand the definition of antisemitism unjustifiably.