Why Ken Livingstone was right when he said that the Nazis supported the German Zionists against their Jewish opponents

At the Book Launch for Zionism During the Holocaust I described how the Zionist Leaders Obstructed the Rescue of Jews from Hitler where Palestine wasn’t the destination Below is an extended essay based on my talk. Zionism During the Holocaust is the first comprehensive book on Zionist relations with the Nazis innearly 40 years. This is surprising at…

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Israel’s Kasztner Trial – The Collaboration with the Nazis that still haunts Zionism

Review of Paul Bogdanor’s ‘Kasztner’s crimes – Tony Greenstein Below is the unedited version of my review of Paul Bogdanor’s Kasztner’s Crimes which appears in the current issue of the Weekly Worker.  I have included a section on the Haganah paratroopers, in particular Hannah Szenes, which was left out of the version published in Weekly Worker for reasons…

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The Zionist leaders considered creating new settlements more urgent than saving Jews from being sent to Treblinka and Birkenau

Instead of supporting and strengthening the Boycott of Nazi Germany, the Yishuv (Jewish Palestine) was sabotaging it Tom Segev whose book Elie Wiesel reviewed Before you decide to report this post to Labour’s compliance unit, in order that they have more evidence to use for my expulsion hearing, please be aware that this is taken…

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Hard Talk Interviews Ilan Pappe

Stephen Sachur’s Zionist Cliches Cut No Ice Stephen Sachur throws every cliché (‘Israel the only democracy in the Middle East’) at Israel’s foremost historian of the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians, Ilan Pappe. Sachur’s argument that Pappe’s family, which obtained refuge in Palestine after fleeing Nazi Germany demonstrates the necessity of Zionism, was not only…

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