crimes that I am apparently accused of in my suspension from the Labour Party [I haven’t been informed of them by the Labour Party but by the Daily Telegraph and The Times] is that I compared Israel’s
marriage laws to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws.
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| The coin that the Nazis struck on the return from a 6 month visit to Palestine by Baron von Mildestein – head of the Jewish section of the Gestapo – he was a guest of the Labour Zionist kibbutzim |
I had written that ‘Jews
supported the Nuremberg laws’. The
Telegraph had confused ‘Zionists’ with ‘Jews’.
There is no doubt historically that the German Zionist Federation did support the Nuremberg
Laws.
version of the Telegraph it alleged that I had ‘compared Israel’s views on inter-racial marriage to the Nazi party’s Nuremberg laws on race.’
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| Daily Telegraph 2.9.16. ‘Corbyn told to exorcise anti-Semitism in his party’ |
award to the honour attached to the SS.
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| The Times, 2.4.16. ‘Labour welcomes back blogger who compares Israelis to Nazis’ |
Indeed I did both of these things. The soldier, Elor Azarya, deliberately shot in the head a Palestinian who had stabbed a soldier, when he was
lying wounded on the ground, already severely injured by a bullet. The Palestinian
had been shot but not killed. Elor
Azarya told another soldier
that he ‘deserved to die.’ Later
inspection of the soldier’s Facebook page revealed he was a supporter of the
late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded Kach, a neo-Nazi Jewish terrorist
group. Kach campaigns for the compulsory
expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and for imprisoning Palestinian males who
have sexual relations with Jews (just as with the Nazis, it isn’t an offence if
it is a Jewish male having sex with a non-Jew).
laws to the Nazi’s Nuremberg laws. That
honour belongs to the greatest political philosopher in the last century, a Jewish
refugee from Nazi Germany by the name of Hannah Arendt. In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem – The Banality
of Evil she compared Israel’s marriage laws, which prevent a Jew marrying a
non-Jew (because there is deliberately no civil marriage in Israel) to the Nuremberg
laws, which also forbade the marriage of a Jew with an ‘Aryan’. She wrote:
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| Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem – The Banality of Evil p.7 compares the prohibition of marriage between Jew & non-Jew in Israel to the forbidding of marriage or sexual relations between Jew & ‘Aryan’ in Nazi Germany |
But it was even worse. As Francis Nicosia, the Raul Hilberg Professor
of Holocaust Studies at Vermont University noted, Berl Katznelson, a founder of
Mapai and editor of Labour Zionism’s daily paper, Davar, second only to David Ben-Gurion,
saw the rise of Hitler as “an opportunity
to build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have”. [Zionism
and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p.91]
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| Francis Nicosia, Zionism & Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p. 91. |
Jews, most of whom were horrified at the formation of a Nazi government on January
30 1933. The reaction of Jews internationally was
equally one of horror and they determined on an international Boycott of Nazi Germany. The Zionists, both in Germany and internationally were fiercely opposed to a Boycott. Instead they concluded, in August 1933, a trade agreement, Ha’avara with Nazi Germany.
to Hitler in June 1933 (they never got an answer) that:
‘On the foundation of the new state, which
has established the principle of race… fruitful activity for the fatherland
is possible. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and
sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial
realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these fundamentals,
because we too are against mixed marriages and are for maintaining the purity
of the Jewish group…. The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by
resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda…
is in essence fundamentally unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle
but to convince and to build. [Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader, p.150-153]
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| Excerpts from letter the German Zionist Federation wrote to Hitler |
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, the President of the
ZVfD and later Vice-Chairman of the World Jewish Congress, wrote an article ‘Zionism
Under the Nazi Government’ in The Young Zionist, November 1937 (cited in Lenni
Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, p. 52) that:
Zionists could responsibly represent the Jews in dealing with the Nazi
government. We all felt sure that one
day the government would arrange a round table conference with the Jews… there
was no country in the world which tried to solve the Jewish problem as seriously
as did Germany… It was our Zionist dream!… Dissimilation? It was our own appeal!…’ [Joachim Prinz, ‘Zionism under the Nazi Government’, Young Zionist, London Nov. 1937 p.18].
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| Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the German Zionist Federation and later Vice-Chairman of the World Jewish Congress |
