Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel

"Three Jewish children on their way to Palestine after having been released from the Buchenwald concentration camp."

Date: June 5, 1945;  Photographer: James E. Myers; Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park.

Derkaoui Abdellah of Morrocco won First Prize in Iran's Holocaust Cartoon Contest with this submission.
 

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  For a look at the consequences of the Holocaust
on Israeli Politics, the Palestinian Situation and today's
conflicts in the Middle East, read:

 Tangled Web: The Consequences

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1. Zionism In the Age of the Dictators - A Reappraisal , by Lenni Brenner
   "Why another book on the Second World War, which is probably the most written about subject in human history? Why another book on the Holocaust, which has been movingly described by many survivors and scholars? As a general subject, the age of the dictators, the world war, and the Holocaust have indeed been covered - but has the interaction between Zionism and Fascism and Nazism been adequately explored? And if not, why not?"
   "The answer is quite simple. Different aspects of the general subject have been dealt with, but there is no equivalent of the present work, one that attempts to present an overview of the movement's world activities during that epoch. Of course, that is not an accident, but rather a sign that there is much that is politically embarrassing to be found in that record."



2. Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History, by Allan C. Brownfeld
   Mr. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review, a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, and editor of Issues, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism.
   [The Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, July/August 1998, pp. 48 50]



3. A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People , by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill
   A controversial article about various aspects of the world Jewish community, including Zionism. Published in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920.
   
   
4. Where the Jews Fail, by Maurice M. Feuerlicht



5. The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics , by Roger Garaudy
   Garaudy examines the various "myths" upon which he declares the State of Israel was founded.  These include theological myths and what he calls "The Myth of the Six Million."  Garaudy also looks at the political use of these myths.  Publication of this book in France led to the indictment of the author and his publisher.



6. Does "International Jewry" Exist?: Grubach Contra Herf, by Paul Grubach

Two letters from Paul Grubach letter to Jeffrey Herf regarding his recent highly acclaimed volume, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During WWII and the Holocaust


7. Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg
    
   Tangled Loyalties: Ilya Ehrenburg (Mirror)

   by Joshua Rubenstein       

      An attempt to rehabilitate Stalin's propagandist, suggesting that he did what he had to do to survive and was not at heart a supporter of Stalin.



8. "Do Not Kill Adolf Eichmann", by Victor Gollancz
   An excerpt from The Case of Adolf Eichmann, London, 1961



9. The Zionist Connection II, by Alfred M. Lilienthal
   • Chapter 13, The Holocaust: Stoking the Fires, by Alfred M. Lilienthal
     "If at times this book seems unduly critical of Israel, and neglects to place in balance the oft-repeated arguments in its favor, it is simply because the gigantic propaganda apparatus of Israel-World Zionism has spun such extensive and deeply ingrained mythology that there is hardly enough space to refute widely accepted theses and expose the picture as it really is. The reader, however, is particularly cautioned to keep in mind at all times the very vital distinction between the State of Israel and the people of Israel. Nor can he overlook the fact that one of Western man's most precious possessions is the inalienable right to dissent. As Thomas Jefferson expressed it, "For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides."
   • Chapter 10, Terror: The Double Standard
   • Chapter 11, Exploiting Anti-Semitism
   • Chapter 12, The Blitz
    


10. [...] Leading scholar's commentary on the Holocaust religion, (revised 1/6/97)
    Excerpts from the writings of Jacob Neusner



11. The Holocaust, Palestine and Israel: Revision, Denial and Myth, by Frank Scott



12. The Fraud of Zionism, by Wilbur Sensor
    "Most people have been trained to think of Zionism in positive terms. This is understandable. Decades of propaganda have misrepresented Zionism as a progressive, modern force bringing civilization to an arid, uninhabited wasteland. Such an image is an illusion. This essay will uncover the true history of Zionism. It will reveal the facts and make clear the real nature of the movement."



13. European History and the Arab World , by Serge Thion



14. The "Haavara Agreement," by Richard Widmann
    An economic agreement between the Third Reich and Zionists aimed at favorable trade terms to encourage emigration to Palestine.



15. The Dark Pages of Zionism: (http://alquds.org/www/zionism/zionism.html)
    Various authors, highly detailed breakdown of the many aspects of Zionism. Appears to outline the con side of the inter-Jewish debate over the relative value and danger of Zionism to the Jewish community.
    (ON MAY 25, 1997, THIS SITE WAS MIRRORED BY CODOH.)



16. From the Newsgroup: soc.culture.polish
    Commentary on the Holocaust by the newly liberated people in whose backyard it took place.



17. Zionism's Failure to Support Resistance
    Friends in need are no friends at all as far as the Zionist movement in WWII Europe was concerned. Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London