Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Mr. Spence wrote a letter to the editor correcting my statement that Mr. Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, was a supporter of Hitler’s Nazis because he died before the movement started. I got Herzl confused with another Zionist. And because Herzl’s movement supported the Nazis it doesn’t mean he would have been a supporter. My apologies.

 

I did more research on the movement. It was considered niche, radical and unwanted by most of the Jewish elites, intellectuals and financiers in Germany. That didn’t seem to bother him. In his diaries he wrote that ‘the anti-Semitic country will be our allies’. That is very telling. Wikipedia

 

Every Jewish organization in and outside of Germany knew how horrible the Nazis were and boycotted them. Not the Zionist. They came up with the Haavara Agreement between them and the Nazis. In short they wanted the Nazis to deport as many European Jews as possible to Palestine. In return they would then start up industries and buy German goods that obviously would help finance the Nazi movement that was persecuting European Jews. How twisted is that!

 

They even had a coin made in 1934 to commemorate this agreement.

 

Now the question is would Herzl have supported this? The Zionist were ready to make deals with colonial powers, anti-semitic powers, with fascist powers who were openly killing and committing genocide on Jewish people because all they cared about was colonizing Palestine while planning to do the same thing to Palestinians as was being done on their own Jewish populations. Talk about toxic and evil bastards.

 

Herzl may have passed before this happened but I have to wonder if he wasn’t cheering them on from his grave.