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and cultural channels, amounting to a virtual Zionist lobby,
based on imperialist-minded politicians and business
interests, but involving broader circles as well. The case of
West Germany is interesting in that it refutes superficial
analysis that the US’s pro-Israeli policy is due to the Zionist
lobby and, in turn, the size of the Jewish community. West Ger-
many, like the US, renders support to ‘Israel’ based on its own
imperialist interests.
Feldman’s book also deals with West Germany’s seem-
ingly diminished political support for the Zionist state in the
seventies, due to its need for Arab oil. West Germany has
joined other West European states in pointing out that the
Palestinian question must be resolved for any peace in the
Middle East, and this entails fulfilling some Palestinian rights.
A closer look reveals that Bonn’s role, like the European initia-
tive generally, has been that of a go-between, offering carrots
to the Palestinian and Arab side to draw them into a settlement
that would essentially consolidate Zionist and imperialist con-
trol of the region. Feldman points out the West German role in
the European initiative: «Voices within the SPD limited the
declaration of the EEC’s Venice summit in June 1980 to a call
for association, not full participation, for the PLO in the Middle
East peace process» (p.222). °
Nazi-Zionist Collaboration
Jewish opposition to Zionism is not only a matter of humanitarian or
international solidarity with the Arabs, but a pretty natural reaction
against a fundamentally anti-semitic movement that has already
managed to uproot the entire Jewish population of all the countries
of the Arab world, is currently trying to do the same in both the Soviet
Union and Iran, and would not be adverse to doing so in Australia if
it could.
The above quote is taken from a
book entitled Nazi-Zionist Collaboration,
published in Britain by BAZO-Palestine
Solidarity and AZAN (Anti-Zionists
Against the Nazis) in cooperation with
JAZA (Jews Against Zionism and Anti-
Semitism) in Australia. The main text is
written by JAZA in 1979, as evidence for
the inquiry into Radio-3CR in Melboume,
Australia. 3CR operates on an anti-
imperialist and anti-racist basis, consid-
ering Zionism as a form of racism.
Zionists in Australia, specifically the
Victonan Jewish Board of Deputies
(VJBD) lashed out at 3CR with charges
of «Anti-semitism», «terrorism» and so
forth. Most disturbing to the Zionists
were 3CR’s broadcasts about Nazi-
Zionist collaboration at the time of World
War Il. The Zionists precipitated a public
inquiry by the Australian Broadcasting
Tribunal into 3CR. For the inquiry, JAZA
compiled documentation of Zionist-Nazi
collaboration. Interestingly enough,
after their vicious smear campaign
against 3CR, the Board of Deputies
withdrew their complaint and the inquiry
was never concluded. As stated in the
preface to the booklet: «Although by no
means comprehensive, the evidence
submitted by JAZA was apparently suffi-
cient for the VJBD to decide it did not
want a public inquiry into these allega-
tions at any cost.» In fact, JAZA’s
documentation drew on Jewish sources,
many of them not at all unfriendly to
Zionism, but written by persons appalled
by Zionism’s collaboration with the fas-
cists and consequent betrayal of the
majority of Jews. The Australian Zionists
preferred to silence any serious discus-
sion of this topic for fear of the reaction,
especially in the Jewish community, if
the facts were known in broader circles.
The booklet covers a broad range of
aspects of the Nazi-Zionist collabora-
tion: negotiations by the leadership, the
role of the Jewish councils and police,
Zionism’s suppression of information
about the Nazi extermination campaign,
its failure to mount resistance and its pol-
icy of selecting the few for immigration to
Palestine, rather than trying to save the
many.
Under the title «Zionist Emigration
and Gestapo Expulsion», the booklet
includes a long passage from Hannah
Arendt's book Eichman in Jerusalem
which gives basic facts about Zionism’s
collaboration with Nazi Germany:
During the first few years, Hitler's
rise to power appeared to the Zionists
Chiefly as «the decisive defeat of
assimilationism.» Hence, the Zionists
could for a time atleast, engage in a cer-
tain amount of non-criminal cooperation
with the Nazi authorities; the Zionists too
believed that «dissimilation», combined
with the emigration to Palestine of
Jewish youngsters and, they hoped,
Jewish capitalists, could be a «mutually
fair solution.» At the time, many German
Officials held this opinion, and this kind
of talk seems to have been quite com-
mon up to the end. A letter from a sur-
vivor of Theresienstadt, a German Jew,
relates that all leading positions in the
Nazi-appointed Reichsvereinigung
were being held by Zionists (whereas
the authentically Jewish Reichsver-
tretung had been composed of both
Zionists and non-Zionists), because
Zionists, according to the Nazis, were
the ‘decent' Jews since they too
thought in ‘national’ terms.»...There
existed in the early years a mutually
highly satisfactory agreement between
the Nazi authorities and the Jewish
Agency for Palestine — a Havarah or
Transfer Agreement, which provided
that an emigrant to Palestine could
transfer his money there in German
goods and exchange them for pounds
upon arrival. It was soon the only legal
way for a Jew to take his money with
him...The result was that in the thirties,
when American Jewry took great pains
to organize a boycott of German mer-
chandise, Palestine, of all places, was
swamped with all kinds of goods «made
in Germany.»
Of greater importance for Eichman
were the emissaries from Palestine,
who would approach the Gestapo and
the S.S. on their own initiative...to enlist
help for the illegal immigration of Jews
into British-ruled Palestine, and both the
Gestapo and the S.S. were helpful.
They negotiated with Eichman in Vien-
na, and they reported that he was «po-
lite»...and that he even provided them
with farms and facilities for setting up
vocational training camps for the pros-
pective immigrants...»
Nazi-Zionist Collaboration can be
obtained from BAZO (British Anti-Zionist
Organization), at the cost of £1.50, from
George Mitchell, 90 John Street, Glas-
cow G1, Britain. @
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