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   >nationalities, and that Jews did not belong in Europe, but rather in   
   >the so-called “Jewish homeland” in Palestine.   
   >   
   >On the basis of their shared views, Germans and Jews worked together   
   >for what each community believed was in its own best national   
   >interest. The Hitler government vigorously supported Zionism and   
   >Jewish emigration to Palestine from 1933 until 1940-41, when the   
   >Second World War prevented further extensive collaboration. / 9   
   >(During the war years attitudes hardened, and policy shifted   
   >drastically. The German policy of collaboration with Zionists and   
   >support for Jewish emigration to Palestine gave way to a harsh “final   
   >solution” policy.)   
   >   
   >During the 1930s, the central SS newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps,   
   >repeatedly proclaimed its support for Zionism. An article published in   
   >1935, for example, told readers: / 10   
   >   
   >“The recognition of Jewry as a racial community based on blood and not   
   >on religion leads the German government to guarantee without   
   >reservation the racial separateness of this community. The government   
   >finds itself in complete agreement with the great spiritual movement   
   >within Jewry, the so-called Zionism, with its recognition of the   
   >solidarity of Jewry around the world, and its rejection of all   
   >assimilationist notions. On this basis, Germany undertakes measures   
   >that will surely play a significant role in the future in the handling   
   >of the Jewish problem around the world.”   
   >   
   >In late 1933, a leading German shipping line began direct passenger   
   >service from Hamburg to Haifa, Palestine, providing “strictly kosher   
   >food” on board.   
   >   
   >In September 1935, the German government enacted the “Nuremberg Laws,”   
   >which prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and   
   >Germans and, in effect, proclaimed the country’s Jews an alien   
   >minority group. / 11 A few days after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted,   
   >the main German Zionist newspaper, the Jüdische Rundschau, editorially   
   >welcomed the new measures. It explained to readers: / 12   
   >   
   >“Germany … is meeting the demands of the World Zionist Congress when   
   >it declares the Jews now living in Germany to be a national minority.   
   >Once the Jews have been stamped a national minority it is again   
   >possible to establish normal relations between the German nation and   
   >Jewry. The new laws give the Jewish minority in Germany its own   
   >cultural life, its own national life. In future it will be able to   
   >shape its own schools, its own theater, and its own sports   
   >associations. In short, it can create its own future in all aspects of   
   >national life …”   
   >   
   >During the 1930s, Zionist groups, working together with Third Reich   
   >authorities, organized a network of some forty camps and agricultural   
   >centers throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for   
   >their new lives in Palestine.   
   >   
   >The centerpiece of German-Zionist cooperation during the Hitler era   
   >was the Transfer Agreement, a pact that enabled tens of thousands of   
   >German Jews to migrate to Palestine with their wealth. The Agreement,   
   >also known as the Ha’avara – Hebrew for “transfer” – was concluded in   
   >August 1933 following talks between German officials and an official   
   >of the Jewish Agency, the Palestine center of the World Zionist   
   >Organization. / 13   
   >   
   >Between 1933 and 1941, some 60,000 German Jews emigrated to Palestine   
   >through the Ha’avara and other German-Zionist arrangements, or about   
   >ten percent of Germany’s 1933 Jewish population. Some Ha’avara   
   >emigrants transferred considerable personal wealth from Germany to   
   >Palestine. As Jewish historian Edwin Black has noted: “Many of these   
   >people, especially in the late 1930s, were allowed to transfer actual   
   >replicas of their homes and factories – indeed rough replicas of their   
   >very existence.” / 14   
   >   
   >The Transfer Agreement was the most far-reaching example of   
   >cooperation between Hitler’s Germany and international Zionism.   
   >Through this pact, Hitler’s Third Reich did more than any other   
   >government during the 1930s to support the Zionist movement and Jewish   
   >development in Palestine.   
   >   
   >The essence of Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, is that Jews everywhere   
   >– regardless of where they live, regardless of their religious   
   >outlook, and regardless of their citizenship – are members of the   
   >Jewish “people” or “nation,” to whom all Jews owe a primary loyalty   
   >and allegiance.   
   >   
   >The overwhelming majority of Jews in the United States today identify   
   >with and support Israel, and are affiliated with Zionist groups and   
   >organizations. Every significant Jewish group or association in the   
   >United States, and every prominent Jewish American political or   
   >community leader supports Israel and Zionism, in most cases fervently   
   >so. With very few exceptions, even American Jews who are critical of   
   >some of Israel’s more embarrassing policies nonetheless express   
   >support for Israel and the nationalist ideology upon which the Zionist   
   >state is based.   
   >   
   >A Zionist Jew, by definition, owes his primary loyalty to the Jewish   
   >community and to Israel. Zionism is not compatible with patriotism to   
   >any country or entity other than Israel and the world Jewish   
   >community. That’s why it’s difficult to accept as sincere or honest   
   >the pious assurances of Jewish leaders in the United States that   
   >American Jews are just as loyal to the US as everyone else.   
   >   
   >In the United States, nearly every prominent political leader – Jewish   
   >and non-Jewish, Democrat and Republican – ardently supports Israel and   
   >the Jewish nationalist ideology upon which it is based. In Washington,   
   >political leaders of both major parties insist on US support for   
   >Israel as an ethnically Jewish state. They fervently support, and   
   >eagerly seek the favor of, influential Jewish-Zionist groups, such as   
   >the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the   
   >Anti-Defamation League (ADL).   
   >   
   >Everyone – whether Jewish or non-Jewish – who claims to support Israel   
   >should, if he is honest and consistent, endorse the view of Israeli   
   >prime minister Sharon, and other Zionist leaders, and support the   
   >migration of Jews everywhere to Israel. But of course that’s not what   
   >happens.   
   >   
   >With regard to Zionism and Israel, the attitude and policies of nearly   
   >all American political leaders, Jewish and non-Jewish, is   
   >characterized by hypocrisy and deceit. To put it another way, Zionist   
   >Jews and their non-Jewish supporters embrace a blatant double   
   >standard. Jewish-Zionist organizations, along with their non-Jewish   
   >allies, support one social-political ideology for Israel and the world   
   >Jewish community, and a completely different one for the United States   
   >and other non-Jewish countries. They insist that ethnic nationalism is   
   >evil and bad for non-Jews, while at the same time they vigorously   
   >support ethnic nationalism – that is, Zionism – for Jews.   
   >   
   >They insist that Israel is and must be a Jewish nationalist state,   
   >with a privileged status for its Jewish population, including   
   >immigration laws that discriminate against non-Jews. At the same time,   
   >Jewish-Zionist groups and leaders, and the non-Jews who support them,   
   >insist that in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other   
   >countries, there must be no privileged status for anyone based on   
   >race, ethnicity or religion.   
   >   
   >Our political leaders tell us that American Jews should be encouraged   
   >to think of themselves as a distinct national group with an identity   
      
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