Zionism was a Quisling Movement That Collaborated with the Nazis and Obstructed the Rescue Efforts of Others
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To
judge by its weaponisation of the holocaust in its war propaganda, people would
be forgiven for thinking that during the holocaust the Zionist movement worked
relentlessly to try and rescue Jews from Hitler’s clutches. Yet the reverse is
the case.
During
the holocaust the Zionists did not want to know about what was happening in Europe.
They had one goal and one goal only – to build their genocidal ‘Jewish’ state. Indeed they did their best to obstruct the
rescue efforts of others if the destination was not Palestine. That is why I
wrote my book, Zionism During the Holocaust,
to set the record straight.
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You
don’t have to take my word for it. Just read the last chapter of Shabtai
Teveth’s official biography of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel,
which is entitled Disaster Means
Strength. The disaster of the holocaust meant strength for the Zionists.
As
Zionist historian Noah Lucas observed:
As
the European holocaust erupted, Ben-Gurion saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism... Ben-Gurion above all others
sensed the tremendous possibilities inherent in the dynamic of the chaos and
carnage in Europe…. In conditions of peace,… Zionism could not move the masses
of world Jewry. The forces unleashed by Hitler in all
their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism. ... By the end of
1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary concern of the
movement. [A Modern History of Israel, pp. 187/8]
In
November 1935 Ben-Gurion explained that:
To the
disaster of German Jewry we must offer a Zionist response, namely, we
must convert the disaster into a source for the upbuilding of Palestine.
In
October 1941 as the holocaust was raging Ben-Gurion wrote:
Disaster is strength if channelled to a productive course. The whole trick of Zionism is that it knows how to channel our disaster, not into despondency or degradation, as is the case in the Diaspora, but into a source of creativity and exploitation. 29F [Shabtai Teveth, The Burning Ground 1886-1948, p. 853]
Tony Greenstein offers an excoriating account of how Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland falsified the historical record in his biography of Rudolph Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz.
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) August 24, 2024
One might wonder why Vrba's incredible story has been buried for decades, given how…
Rudolf Vrba
In 1935 the Nazis
introduced the Nuremberg Laws, which Gerald Reitlinger described as ‘‘the
most murderous legislative instrument known to European history’. It
turned German Jews from citizens into subjects. Only the Zionists
welcomed the laws. Zionist Executive President, Menahem Ussishkin, was effusive:
There is something positive in
their [German Jewry’s] tragedy... and that is that Hitler oppressed them as a race and not as a
religion. Had he done the latter, half the Jews in Germany would simply have converted to Christianity.
German
Zionist leader Joachim Prinz explained that:
(The Jews) have
been drawn out of the last secret recesses of christening and mixed marriages.
We are not unhappy about it... The theory of assimilation has collapsed…. We want to replace
assimilation by something new: the
declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and the Jewish race. A state,
built according to the principle of purity of the nation and race can only be
honoured and respected by a Jew who declares
his belonging to his own kind. 'Wir Juden' Berlin 1934, p.154 https://tinyurl.com/yxqvmaq5
The
Zionists alone amongst Jews saw the advent of the Nazis as something positive. Berl
Katznelson, a founder of
Mapai and editor of the Histadrut paper Davar, as well as Ben-Gurion’s effective
deputy, saw ‘an opportunity to build and
flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have.’[Francis Nicosia, Zionism & Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany,
p. 91]
When
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30 1933 most Jews reacted
instinctively by boycotting everything German. Not so the Zionists. They were
eager to trade with the Nazis to build their ‘Jewish’ state and in August 1933
they reached a trading agreement with them, Ha’avara.
When
the last major Jewish community in Europe was under threat, after the Nazi
invasion of Hungary on March 19, 1944, the Zionists suppressed the Vrba-Wetzler
Report which, exposed Auschwitz, not as a labour camp but an extermination camp.
But first a little background.
On
April 10 Rudolf Vrba and his friend Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz with
the purpose of warning Hungarian Jews what was in store for them. They had
heard SS men talking about looking forward to Hungarian salami, the food that the
deportees would bring with them. On April 24 after a perilous journey they
reached Slovakia and set down what they knew to the Jewish Council there.
On
or about April 29 Rudolf Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian Zionism, paid his
monthly visit to Bratislava and was given a copy. What did he do? Spread the word far and wide? On the contrary he took them to Eichmann,
told him of them and agreed in negotiations that in exchange for a train out of
Hungary to safety for 1684 Zionist and rich Jews, Kasztner would not only
suppress the news of Auschwitz but positively misinform the Jews who were
getting on the deportations trains.
Kasztner's Train for the elite
Of
this there is no doubt. When Malchiel Greenwald called Kasztner a collaborator
in Israel in 1953, he was sued by the Israeli state for libel by Kasztner. But
it didn’t turn out as expected. Jews who had survived Auschwitz testified to
Kasztner’s treachery. When David Rozner was asked why Kasztner would have been killed if he had set foot in
Koloszvár, his home town, after the war, he replied, ‘Because he was the man who misled the Jews
to believe in the good intentions of the Germans.’ [Ben Hecht, Perfidy p. 109].
It
later turned out that Kasztner had gone to Nuremberg to give evidence that exonerated
some of Eichmann’s worst butchers like Hermann Krumey and Dieter Wisliceny. Not
surprisingly Rudolf Vrba, who had done his best to ensure that the Vrba-Wetzler
Report was distributed to other people, laid the blame at Kasztner’s door and
that of the Zionist movement. The response of the Zionist historians was to
erase Kasztner from historical memory.
In
the Israeli school syllabus and holocaust texts there was no mention made of
the two Jewish escapees or even the fact that there had been Jews who escaped
from Auschwitz.
Vrba’s
memoirs, I Cannot Forgive, were
printed everywhere but in Israel. No mention was made of Vrba or Wetzler’s name
in Yad Vashem, the obscene holocaust propaganda museum in Jerusalem where
assorted fascists, neo-Nazis and racists now visit to pay their homage to the
Israeli state.
In
articles and publications the names of Vrba and Wetzler were never mentioned –
they were ‘two Jewish chaps’ or ‘two Jewish prisoners’. In the words of
Ruth Linn, an Israeli Professor of Education from Haifa University, who
happened, by chance, to meet Vrba at the University of British Columbia,
‘The problem was that none of the
escapers had even a ‘minimal layer of Zionist veneer.’ [Ruth Linn, Escaping
Auschwitz, a Culture of Forgetting p. 85].
Like
Marek Edelman, the last Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Vrba was
eliminated from the history books and by the holocaust industry because he
didn’t fit into the Zionist narrative. Linn wrote that
Like Vrba,
Edelman never ‘ascended’ to Israel,
refusing to become the ‘dead and obedient hero who could be molded along with
the political order of that time…. extremely inconvenient for the creation of a
heroic Zionist condensing and compensating myth… Israel was not their home.’ Linn, pp. 6, 87.
As
people may remember, over 2 months ago I wrote, for Electronic Intifada
and my own blog, what Jonathan
Cook called an excoriating
review of Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape
Artist, a biography of Vrba. Freedland’s book was a cheap imitation
thriller of Vrba’s own memoirs, I Cannot
Forgive. It was dishonest in its justification of Vrba’s silencing.
I
decided, at this time of genocide, that it would be appropriate to organise a
webinar on the subject of Rewriting the Holocaust and we have an excellent
panel of speakers. Stephen Kapos is well known to people as a child survivor of
Budapest under the Nazis. Tom Suarez has written two amazingly researched books
and Haim Bresheeth, from Jewish Network for Palestine is a long time
Israeli-Jewish activist who has just been arrested whilst speaking at a
demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy, as I was a month ago.
The
days when Israel and the Zionists had a monopoly over the holocaust are gone.
The holocaust in Gaza demonstrates that Zionism has not learnt any lessons from
the Nazi holocaust. On the contrary the Zionists believe that the Nazi
holocaust entitles them to commit their own holocaust, a view that the German
State also holds.
Ruth
Linn, whose book, Escaping
Auschwitz – A Culture of Silence exposed the machinations of Yehuda Bauer
and the other establishment Zionist holocaust historians. I invited her to join
the panel and initially she accepted. However Ruth Linn is a Zionist and she
got cold feet about speaking with anti-Zionists. However you should read Linn’s
Who’s afraid of the man who
escaped from Auschwitz?
Tony Greenstein
See Defending Vrba and Freedland on Vrba
