Fascist History Of Zionism Israel Wants You To Forget

Understanding the troubling colonization of Palestine starts with understanding the Zionist mindset towards Jews in Europe before it crept into anti-Arab racism.

The early writings of Zionist figures like Herzl reveal a complex attitude toward anti-Semitism. Herzl himself admitted to a shift in perspective, acknowledging the historical context of anti-Semitism and the futility of directly opposing it. Similarly, Zionist youth groups like Hashomer Hatzair depicted Jews as caricatures, revolting against societal norms. Figures like Jabotinsky even went as far as to vilify the Jewish people, suggesting their salvation lay solely in mass immigration to Palestine. Paradoxically, the founders of Zionism saw anti-Semites as potential allies, sharing a common goal of removing Jews from their homelands. This twisted logic led them to adopt and internalize anti-Semitic beliefs, viewing their persecutors as sponsors and protectors

Herzl's approach to Count Von Plehve, a key figure behind violent pogroms in Russia, epitomizes this unsettling alliance. Von Plehve, sympathetic to Zionism's goal of Jewish emigration, offered financial support in exchange for assistance in quelling unrest in Russia. This pattern repeated with other regimes and figures, including the Sultan of Turkey, the Kaiser in Germany, and various colonial powers, all courted in pursuit of Zionist goals.

The dark association between Zionism and fascism further taints its history. Mussolini's embrace of Zionist youth movements, adorned in black shirts akin to his Fascist squads, reflects a disturbing symbiosis. Even Menachem Begin, later to become Prime Minister of Israel, favoured the brown shirts of Hitler's gangs, adopting the fascist salute and ideology. Collaboration with Ukrainian fascist Simon Petliura, responsible for pogroms that claimed thousands of Jewish lives, further underscores this troubling trend.

The most egregious aspect of Zionist collaboration, however, was with the Nazis themselves. Zionist federations in Germany expressed support for Nazi policies, seeing a shared interest in the notion of racial purity and segregation. The Zionist leadership even struck a deal with the Nazis to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine, breaking ranks with Jewish boycotts against Nazi Germany. This collusion extended to financial dealings, with Zionist organizations becoming key distributors of Nazi goods in the Middle East and Northern Europe.

Perhaps most chillingly, the Zionist leadership actively engaged with high-ranking Nazi officials, including SS officers like Baron Von Mildenstein and Adolf Eichmann. They sought to align Zionist interests with Nazi objectives, even offering espionage services in exchange for Jewish wealth to fund Zionist colonization efforts. This twisted logic saw Zionist leaders prioritizing their own territorial ambitions over the plight of Europe's persecuted Jews.

The extent of Zionist betrayal becomes most glaring in their obstruction of Jewish rescue efforts. From opposing changes to immigration laws that could save Jewish lives to actively sabotaging rescue missions, the Zionist establishment prioritized the colonization of Palestine over the survival of European Jewry. Rabbi Weissmandel's impassioned pleas for action fell on deaf ears, as Zionist leaders remained focused on their territorial goals, even at the cost of countless Jewish lives.

The ultimate betrayal came in the form of a secret pact between Zionist leader Rudolph Kastner and Adolf Eichmann, sealing the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Kastner's collusion with the Nazis, backed by Zionist leaders abroad, epitomizes the moral bankruptcy of Zionist leadership in the face of genocide.

In seeking alliances with oppressors, embracing fascist ideologies, and prioritizing territorial ambitions over human lives, the Zionist movement betrayed not just the victims of the Holocaust, but the very principles of compassion and solidarity that should have guided their actions.

Fascists and Zionism

The history of Zionism, often overlooked and misrepresented by Israel and current zionists, is deeply disturbing

• Under Mussolini's influence, squads of the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, Betar, were formed, dressed in black shirts reminiscent of his Fascist cohorts.

• Upon assuming leadership of Betar, Menachem Begin opted for the brown shirts emblematic of Hitler's gangs. Begin and his followers donned these uniforms for all their gatherings, where they exchanged the fascist salute.

• Simon Petilura, a Ukrainian fascist responsible for the deaths of 28,000 Jews in nearly 900 pogroms, found an ally in Jabotinsky. Negotiating an alliance, Jabotinsky proposed a Jewish police force to support Petilura's counter-revolutionary campaign against the Red Army and The Bolshevik Revolution, resulting in the slaughter of peasants, workers, and intellectual supporters of the revolution.

Nazis and Zionists

This tactic of engaging Europe’s staunch anti-Semites and forging alliances with the most brutal factions and governments to support a Zionist settlement in Palestine extended even to the Nazis.

The Zionist Federation of Germany, on June 21, 1933, forwarded a memorandum expressing solidarity with the Nazi Party. In it, they acknowledged:

"... the rejuvenation of national life, as witnessed in German society, must also extend to the Jewish community."

Embracing the racial principles of the new Nazi state, they sought integration into the national structure to enable fruitful collaboration with the homeland.

Rather than rejecting this approach, the World Zionist Organization Congress in 1933 quashed a resolution advocating action against Hitler by an overwhelming margin of 240 to 43.

During this same gathering, Hitler announced a trade pact with the WZO’s Anglo-Palestine Bank, shattering the Jewish boycott of the Nazi regime during the depths of the Depression. The WZO became a key distributor of Nazi products across the Middle East and Northern Europe, establishing the Ha’avara Bank in Palestine. This institution facilitated the transfer of funds from the German-Jewish elite to purchase substantial quantities of Nazi goods, undermining the boycott efforts.

Zionists Embraced The SS (Schutzstaffel)

As a result, the Zionists invited Baron Von Mildenstein of the SS Security Service to visit Palestine for six months to show support for Zionism. This visit led to a twelve-part series by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, in Der Angriff (The Assault) in 1934, praising Zionism. Goebbels also had a medallion created with the Swastika on one side and the Zionist Star of David on the other. In May 1935, Reinhardt Heydrich, the chief of the SS Security Service, wrote an article categorizing Jews into “two groups.” He expressed support for the Zionists: “Our good wishes together with our official good will go with them.” In 1937, the Labor "socialist" Zionist militia, the Haganah (founded by Jabotinsky), sent an agent named Feivel Polkes to Berlin, offering to spy for the SS Security Service in exchange for releasing Jewish wealth for Zionist colonization. Adolf Eichmann was invited to Palestine as a guest of the Haganah.

Feivel Polkes informed Eichmann that:

Jewish nationalist circles were very pleased with the radical German policy since the strength of the Jewish population in Palestine would be so far increased thereby that in the foreseeable future, the Jews could reckon upon numerical superiority over the Arabs.

The list of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis is extensive. What can explain this incredible willingness of Zionist leaders to betray the Jews of Europe? The primary rationale for the state of Israel, according to its supporters, has been to provide a refuge for Jews facing persecution.

However, the Zionists saw efforts to rescue Europe’s Jews not as a fulfilment of their political purpose but as a threat to their entire movement. If Europe’s Jews were saved, they might choose to go elsewhere, and the rescue operation would not contribute to the Zionist project of establishing control over Palestine.

The Betrayal of European Jews

During the 1930s, Zionist collaboration with the Nazis was paralleled by their efforts to block changes to the immigration laws in the United States and Western Europe that could have provided refuge for persecuted European Jews.

In 1938, Ben Gurion told a meeting of Labor Zionists in Great Britain: “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.” This focus on colonizing Palestine and outnumbering the Arabs led the Zionist movement to oppose rescuing Jews facing extermination, as it would hinder their ability to redirect selected individuals to Palestine. Between 1933 and 1935, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) rejected two-thirds of the German Jews who applied for immigration certificates.

Berel Katznelson, editor of the Labor Zionist Davar, highlighted the "cruel criteria of Zionism": German Jews were considered too old to bear children in Palestine, lacked relevant trades, didn’t speak Hebrew, and weren’t Zionists. Instead of rescuing these Jews facing extermination, the WZO brought 6,000 young, trained Zionists from safe countries like the United States and Britain to Palestine. The WZO not only failed to seek alternatives for Jews facing the Holocaust but also vehemently opposed efforts to find them refuge.

In 1943, even as millions of European Jews were being exterminated, the US Congress proposed a commission to study the problem. Rabbi Stephen Wise, the main American spokesperson for Zionism, testified against the rescue bill because it would divert attention from the colonization of Palestine.

In 1938, as the leader of the American Jewish Congress, Rabbi Wise wrote a letter opposing changes to US immigration laws that would allow Jews to find refuge. He stated:

"It may interest you to know that some weeks ago the representatives of all the leading Jewish organizations met in a conference ... It was decided that no Jewish organization would, at this time, sponsor a bill which would in any way alter the immigration laws."

Being Against Asylum

The entire Zionist establishment made its stance clear in response to a motion by 227 British members of Parliament, urging the government to provide asylum in British territories for persecuted Jews. The limited action taken was as follows:

His Majesty’s Government issued a few hundred immigration permits to Mauritius and other territories for threatened Jewish families.

However, even this small measure faced opposition from Zionist leaders. At a Parliamentary meeting on January 27, 1943, when over one hundred members of Parliament pursued further steps, a Zionist spokesperson announced their opposition because the motion did not include plans for the colonization of Palestine. This opposition was in line with their consistent stance.

Chaim Weizmann’s Innaugeration

Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist leader who facilitated the Balfour Declaration and later became the first president of Israel, made this policy very clear:

"The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centred on emigration. I was asked: ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ ... From the depths of the tragedy I want to save ... young people [for Palestine]. The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world ... Only the branch of the young shall survive. They have to accept it."

Yitzhak Gruenbaum, the chairperson of the committee established by the Zionists to investigate the condition of European Jews, stated:

"When they come to us with two plans – the rescue of the masses of Jews in Europe or the redemption of the land – I vote, without a second thought, for the redemption of the land. The more said about the slaughter of our people, the greater the minimization of our efforts to strengthen and promote the Hebraisation of the land. If there would be a possibility today of buying packages of food with the money of the Karen Hayesod [United Jewish Appeal] to send it through Lisbon, would we do such a thing? No. And once again no!"

Betraying Jewish Resistance

In July 1944, Rabbi Dov Michael Weissmandel, a Slovakian Jewish leader, wrote to Zionist officials involved with "rescue organizations," proposing several measures to save Jews destined for extermination at Auschwitz. He provided detailed maps of the railways and urged bombing the tracks used to transport Hungarian Jews to the crematoria.

He called for bombing the furnaces at Auschwitz, parachuting ammunition to 80,000 prisoners, and sending saboteurs to destroy the means of extermination, thereby halting the daily cremation of 13,000 Jews

If the Allies refused to take action, Weissmandel proposed that the Zionists, who had resources and organization, secure airplanes, recruit Jewish volunteers, and carry out the sabotage themselves.

Weissmandel was not alone. Throughout the late 1930s and 1940s, European Jewish leaders pleaded for help, public campaigns, organized resistance, and demonstrations to pressure Allied governments. These pleas were met not only with Zionist silence but with active sabotage of the limited efforts proposed or prepared in Great Britain and the United States.

In his heartfelt plea to the Zionists in July 1944, Rabbi Weissmandel asked incredulously:

"Why have you done nothing until now? Who is guilty of this frightful negligence? Are you not guilty, our Jewish brothers: you who have the greatest good fortune in the world – liberty?"

He continued, writing:

"We send you this special message: to inform you that yesterday the Germans began the deportation of Jews from Hungary... The deported ones go to Auschwitz to be put to death by cyanide gas. This is the schedule of Auschwitz from yesterday to the end:

Twelve thousand Jews – men, women and children, old men, infants, healthy and sick ones, are to be suffocated daily.

And you, our brothers in Palestine, in all the countries of freedom, and you ministers of all the Kingdoms, how do you keep silent in the face of this great murder?

Silent while thousands upon thousands, reaching now to six million Jews, are murdered? And silent now, while tens of thousands are still being murdered and waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed hearts cry out to you for help as they bewail your cruelty.

Brutal, you are and murderers, too, you are, because of the cold-bloodedness of the silence in which you watch, because you sit with folded arms and do nothing, although you could stop or delay the murder of Jews at this very hour.

You, our brothers, sons of Israel, are you insane? Don’t you know the hell around us? For whom are you saving your money? Murderers! Madmen! Who is it that gives charity: you who toss a few pennies from your safe homes, or we who give our blood in the depths of hell?

No Zionist leader supported his request, nor did the Western capitalist regimes bomb a single concentration camp.

Backstabbing Hungarian Jews

The pinnacle of Zionist betrayal was the sacrifice of Hungary's Jews through a series of agreements between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany, which first came to light in 1953. Dr. Rudolph Kastner of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee in Budapest signed a secret pact with Adolf Eichmann in 1944 to "settle the Jewish question" in Hungary. This pact sealed the fate of 800,000 Jews.

It was later revealed that Kastner was acting under the direction of Zionist leaders abroad when he made his agreement with Eichmann. The agreement involved saving six hundred prominent Jews on the condition that silence was maintained about the fate of Hungarian Jewry

Hungarian Jews Arrive At Auschwitz

When survivor Malchiel Greenwald exposed the pact and accused Kastner of being a Nazi collaborator whose "deeds in Budapest cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews," Greenwald was sued by the Israeli government. The leaders who had orchestrated the Kastner pact initiated this lawsuit.

The Israeli court concluded:

"The sacrifice of the majority of the Jews, to rescue the prominent ones, was the basic element in the agreement between Kastner and the Nazis. This agreement divided the nation into two unequal camps: a small fragment of prominent Jews whom the Nazis promised Kastner to save, and the vast majority of Hungarian Jews whom the Nazis designated for death."

The court declared that the essential condition of this pact was that neither Kastner nor the Zionist leaders would interfere with the Nazi actions against the Jews. These leaders not only refrained from interference but agreed, in the words of the Israeli court, to "not hamper them in the extermination."

Collaboration between the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and the exterminators of the Jews was solidified in Budapest and Vienna. Kastner's duties became intertwined with those of the SS. In addition to its Extermination Department and Looting Department, the Nazi SS established a Rescue Department headed by Kastner. Hungarian Jews were most prominently anti-Zionist.

Save The Nazis, Not the Jews

It is not surprising that it was later revealed that Kastner intervened to save SS General Kurt Becher from being tried for war crimes. Becher was a key negotiator in the 1944 deal with the Zionists. He was also an SS Major in Poland and a member of the Death Corps, notorious for their relentless killing of Jews. Becher "distinguished himself as a Jew slaughterer in Poland and Russia." He was appointed Commissar of all Nazi concentration camps by Heinrich Himmler

Hungarian Zionist leaders Otto Komoly and Rezso Kasztner (left), negotiated with the SS for the release of Jews from Hungary. Budapest, Hungary, 1944. (Photo: Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

Becher was rewarded and made president of several corporations and was instrumental in selling wheat to Israel. His company, Cologne-Handel Gesellschaft, engaged in extensive business dealings with the Israeli government.

Military Alliance With The Nazis

On January 11, 1941, Avraham Stern proposed a formal military pact between the National Military Organization (NMO) the Lehi Group, and the Nazi Third Reich. Yitzhak Shamir, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, was a prominent leader of the NMO.

This proposal, known as the Ankara document, was discovered after the war in the files of the German Embassy in Turkey. He led the group of Zionist militias that the British coined “Stern Gang” that committed the infamous Deir Yassin Massacre of Palestinians where babies were baked in ovens in real

Avraham Stern

The document states the following:

"The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish question; but this can only be made possible and complete through the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish people, Palestine, and through the establishment of a Jewish state in its historical boundaries”.

The NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and Zionist emigration plans, thinks that:

1. The formation of a new European order, aligned with German ideology, may coincide with the genuine national ambitions of the Jewish people, as represented by the NMO.

2. Cooperation between the new Germany and renewed folkish-national Hebraium would be possible and

3. Creating a historical Jewish state with a nationalist and totalitarian foundation, and linked by a pact with the German Reich, would serve the interests of preserving and enhancing Germany's future power and influence in the Near East.

In light of these factors, the NMO in Palestine proposes to participate in the war alongside Germany actively, provided that the German Reich acknowledges the national aspirations of the Israeli independence movement.

The Lehis were firm believers that the Germans were the lesser of the two evils compared to the British.

Stern Gang Bombs Deir Yassin

Duplicitous Zionism

Zionism's betrayal—its abandonment of Holocaust victims—represents the apex of its bid to align Jewish interests with established powers. Today, Zionists tie their state to the enforcement arm of US imperialism, spanning from Latin American death squads to the covert operations of the CIA on multiple continents.

This ignoble history traces back to the disillusionment of Zionism's founders, who rejected the potential for overcoming anti-Semitism through popular struggle and social revolution. Figures like Moses Hess, Theodor Herzl, and Chaim Weizmann aligned themselves with state power, class dominance, and exploitative rule. They falsely believed that emancipation from persecution could be achieved without fundamental social change. They were well aware that the cultivation of anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews were the work of the ruling class they sought to appease.

In their quest for power and acceptance, they absorbed the values and ideas of anti-Semites, portraying Jews as undisciplined and subversive. They shamelessly pandered to racist Jew-hatred, catering to the desires of those who wished to rid themselves of a people radicalized by persecution.

The dark truth of Zionist history is that Zionism perceived European Jewry as a threat to its goals. Organizing resistance against persecution meant confronting regimes that Zionists hoped would sponsor their colonization efforts in Palestine. The persecution of Jews was essential for Zionists to persuade Jews to become colonizers abroad, and they relied on the persecutors to support their enterprise.

However, European Jews showed little interest in colonizing Palestine. Zionism remained a fringe movement among them, as most aspired to live free of discrimination or sought refuge in more tolerant democracies.

When faced with extermination, the Zionists not only failed to lead resistance or defend Jews but actively obstructed efforts to boycott the Nazi economy. They sought sponsorship from mass murderers, believing Nazi practices aligned with Zionist goals.

There was a disturbing alignment between Zionism and Nazism, epitomized by statements like Vladimir Jabotinsky's callous proposal for the forced exodus of Palestinians. This moral bankruptcy reached its peak when Zionists emulated Nazi tactics, driving 800,000 Palestinians into exile.

Zionism's approach mirrored its dealings with anti-Semitic regimes—it prioritized the colonization of Palestine over the rescue of persecuted Jews. It preferred Jewish corpses to any rescue that didn't serve its territorial ambitions

Mass Graves Found, Khan Younis / AFP

.For people familiar with persecution and slander, the Zionists' actions are particularly egregious. They not only betrayed their own but also celebrated the persecution of others while inflicting their conquest on an innocent population. In a grotesque twist, they draped themselves in the collective shroud of the Holocaust, masking their own atrocities.

Conclusion

The historical record of Zionism, as revealed in these accounts, underscores a troubling paradox: a movement born out of the desire to escape persecution itself engaged in morally reprehensible alliances and actions. The revelations of the Ankara document, the Kastner affair, and the collaboration with Nazi authorities highlight a grim reality. Zionist leaders, in their quest to establish a Jewish state, often acted in ways that betrayed the very people they claimed to represent.

This history should serve as a sobering reminder of the complexities and moral ambiguities that can arise when ideological fervour and political expediency intersect. It also challenges us to critically examine the narratives we accept and the actions taken in the name of higher ideals. The sacrifices made and the ethical compromises involved in the creation of Israel are part of a larger, often painful story that must be confronted honestly.

As we reflect on these events, it becomes clear that the pursuit of a national homeland should never come at the expense of justice and humanity. The lessons from this dark chapter urge us to strive for a future where the rights and dignity of all people are upheld, and where the mistakes of the past inform a more compassionate and equitable path forward.