https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine. Emigrants sold their assets in Germany to pay for essential goods (manufactured in Germany) to be shipped to Mandatory Palestine. The agreement was controversial and was criticised by many Jewish leaders both within the Zionist movement (such as the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky) and outside it, as well as by members of both the Nazi Party and the German public. For German Jews, the agreement offered a way to leave an increasingly hostile environment in Germany; for the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, it offered access to both immigrant labour and economic support; for the Germans it facilitated the emigration of German Jews while breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933, which had mass support among European and American Jews and was thought by the German state to be a potential threat to the German economy.

The agreement was controversial both within the Nazi party and in the Zionist movement. As historian Edwin Black put it, "The Transfer Agreement tore the Jewish world apart, turning leader against leader, threatening rebellion and even assassination." Opposition came from the mainstream US leadership of the World Zionist Congress, in particular Abba Hillel Silver and American Jewish Congress president Rabbi Stephen Wise. Wise and other leaders of the Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 argued against the agreement, narrowly failing to persuade the Nineteenth Zionist Congress in August 1935 to vote against it.

The right-wing Revisionist Zionists and their leader Vladimir Jabotinsky were even more vocal in their opposition. The Revisionist newspaper in Palestine, Hazit Haam published a sharp denunciation of those involved in the agreement as "betrayers", and shortly afterwards one of the negotiators, Haim Arlosoroff was assassinated.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    I mentioned this the other day. Most people have forgotten that Theodor Herzl created Zionism as a capitulation to antisemitism, not out of love for his own folk. Zionism separated Jews from gentiles by hundreds of miles, so antisemites (such as Benito Mussolini) liked it and in Europe it was trendy to tell Jews to fuck off to Palestine.

    In the streets, the markets, the schools, the newspapers, the universities, Jewish men, women and children of all ages would be verbally abused and told to go to Palestine: Szydzi do Palestyny! Jews go to Palestine!

    […]

    Bella cried out, pointing to one soldier, who had just struck one of the Jews with the butt of his rifle, sending him sprawling into a hole that was filled with excrement. The crowd roared in appreciation. One onlooker improvised a verse, which produced a second round of laughter:

    The pig did not go to Palestine,
    now he scrubs our dirty latrine.

    (Source.)

  • plinky [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Eichmann was still trying to strike a deal in 1938