When Hitler took control of Germany in 1933, Zionist leaders collaborated with Nazi leaders at the expense of the lives and wealth of millions of Jews. One cannot overlook the racial motivations that drove some Jews who admired Hitler to cooperate with his regime. A magazine published in Palestine called "Brit HaBirionim" (The Alliance of the Strong) openly supported cooperation with the Nazis, featuring articles that praised Hitler and Nazism. Members of the alliance would chant: "Germany for Hitler, Italy for Mussolini, and Palestine for Jabotinsky."
The Israeli academic Israel Shahak (1933–2001), in his book Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years, addressed clear examples of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis at the expense of German, Polish, and other Eastern European Jews. One of the most horrifying examples of this collaboration was the jubilation some Zionist leaders expressed over Hitler's rise to power, as they shared his belief in racial superiority and opposed the assimilation of Jews into the Aryan race. They even congratulated Hitler on defeating their shared enemy: liberal forces.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, a Zionist rabbi who later emigrated to the United States and became vice president of the World Jewish Congress, an economic advisor to the World Zionist Organization, and a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, published a book in 1934 titled We, the Jews to celebrate Hitler’s German revolution and the defeat of liberalism. In this provocative book, he wrote:
"The significance of the German revolution for the German nation will eventually become clear to those who created it and shaped it, but its significance for us Jews must be determined immediately. Liberalism, which was the only form of political life that facilitated Jewish integration, has lost its future and has sunk."
In his book, Prinz expressed his satisfaction that Nazism had abolished Jewish assimilation by banning intermarriage between Jews and Germans. He rejoiced that Jews were forced to identify themselves with visible markers indicating their Jewishness.
Prinz even advocated for a German law requiring Jews to declare their allegiance to the Jewish nation and race. He argued that a state founded on the principle of racial and national purity could only respect Jews who openly declared such allegiance. Once they made this declaration, they could no longer offer partial loyalty to the state. The state, in turn, could only accept Jews who proclaimed their loyalty to their nation, as it would not tolerate hypocritical or sycophantic Jews. According to Prinz, the state should demand this loyalty from Jews for their own good because only those who respect their own race and blood can respect the national will of other nations.
It is astonishing how Prinz, this philosophical thinker, blended concepts of race, blood purity, nation, people, and Judaism into one concoction, creating a bizarre mix that aligns with the ideological monstrosity of Zionism, which played a significant role in Jewish massacres.
Shahak notes that Dr. Prinz and other Zionists sympathetic to and allied with Nazism did not grasp the full consequences of Nazism. Nor did they realize that Zionism itself is a blend of the classical Jewish hatred for non-Jews and the historical exploitation of Jewish persecution to justify Zionist oppression and extermination of unarmed Palestinians.
Jewish law (Halakha) is very clear: According to Halakha, saving the life of a fellow Jew is an obligation that takes precedence over all other obligations and religious prohibitions, except for the three gravest sins: adultery, including incestuous adultery; murder; and idol worship. If we consider the Zionist leaders who sacrificed millions of Jews as non-Jews, they deserve to be judged and condemned to death by all human standards because they caused the deaths of millions of people.
However, if we consider them Jews, they deserve the harshest forms of execution because they acted deliberately and with premeditation to cause the deaths of millions of their brothers, the members of Allah’s chosen people! These were sent to their deaths through the Holocaust and gas chambers because the interests of some Jews necessitated sacrificing them. They became obstacles to rescuing their co-religionists and were left to the claws of death to achieve a national benefit for Jews living outside danger zones. Where are the rabbis who should have prosecuted these murderous leaders? Or did the Zionists act under the guidance—or even explicit orders—of these very rabbis?
Why was Rudolf Kastner assassinated in 1957 at the entrance of the court in "Israel" before he could testify? Did some Israeli leaders not admit that what Kastner knew posed a danger to the state’s leadership?
In this context, one cannot forget the book What Price Israel by the American Jew of German origin, Alfred Lilienthal, which addresses the victims of Nazism—those persecuted, fleeing, and hiding throughout Europe—hunted by the Gestapo under the threat of death for anyone who harbored them and monetary rewards for those who reported their whereabouts.
The policy of oppression and rewards succeeded, as Jewish families fell one after another, captured by the Nazis and sent to their bloody fate in concentration camps. Lilienthal writes that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was deeply concerned about the fates of persecuted Jews and refugees in Europe. He believed that free nations worldwide should accept large numbers of them, regardless of their religion, origin, skin color, or political beliefs. Roosevelt hoped to save half a million of the persecuted through such means (pp. 30–31).
Driven by this humanitarian conviction, Roosevelt sent his close friend, Congressman Morris Ernst, to London in the middle of World War II (in 1942, before the full-scale genocide of Jews reached its tragic proportions) to ask the British government if it would be willing to accept 100,000 or 200,000 refugees.
Roosevelt believed that if Britain agreed to accept this number of refugees, Canada, Australia, and some South American countries would follow suit. If these nations opened their doors, the U.S. Congress might awaken to the necessity of continuing the American tradition of accepting refugees. The key to all this lay in London. Would Ernst succeed?
Ernst returned to Roosevelt with the good news that Britain was willing to cooperate with the American request by accepting 150,000 displaced refugees. Roosevelt exclaimed joyfully, "150,000 in Britain, another 150,000 in the United States, and 200,000 elsewhere! This opens the way to saving half a million persecuted people."
About a week after that meeting, Roosevelt met again with Ernst and his wife. He informed them that the plan to rescue half a million Jews had to be halted because Jewish leaders in the United States opposed the plan to save their relatives. Ernst exclaimed, "This is impossible! Why would Jewish leaders oppose a plan to save their relatives?"
Roosevelt replied, "The Zionist movement knows that Palestine, at present and in the near future, is the place where Jews should be sent. They understand that they can collect vast sums of money from wealthy Jewish donors by telling them that Palestine is the only place that can save Jews from certain death. If these donors see that the U.S. and other nations worldwide are welcoming persecuted Jews with open arms, they will stop donating to the Zionist movement entirely."
Ernst was shocked by this logic and initially refused to believe what he heard from his friend Roosevelt, the President of the United States (Linenthal, The Price of Judaism, pp. 27–28).
Through this despicable Zionist conspiracy with senior Nazi leaders such as Heydrich, Eichmann, and Himmler, operations to rescue half a million European Jews were halted, leaving them to be consumed by the gas chambers, crematoria, and mass graves that seemed insatiable. The number of dead exceeded half a million, reaching several million Jews who were sacrificed by Zionism to collect funds for their inhumane leadership.
The Zionist leadership voices that participated in these heinous policies, leading to the extermination of millions of Jews, were even more duplicitous than we might imagine. Many of them went on to become Prime Ministers of "Israel," such as Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Golda Meir, Levi Eshkol, Yitzhak Shamir, and Rudolf Kastner.
If Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the Zionist entity, was willing to sacrifice half of the Jewish children for the Zionist national homeland, then Yitzhak Gruenbaum, head of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, completely crossed the line. In a speech before the Zionist Executive Committee on February 18, 1943, he stated: “If I were asked whether it is possible to donate some funds from the United Jewish Appeal to save Jews, my answer would be a categorical no… We must resist this tendency to place Zionist activity in second place. One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland.” Chaim Weizmann had expressed a similar utilitarian sentiment in 1937, saying: “The elderly will die—they are dust and will bear their fate.” (Ahmed Al-Messiri, Zionism and Nazism, p. 149).
In this context, one cannot forget the memoirs of Yitzhak Shamir, the former Israeli Prime Minister, where he touches on the same topic but from a different perspective.
Those were the days of the Nazis' collective torture camps for killing, humiliating, looting, and isolating Jews in implementation of their principle of complete annihilation. Because Britain refused to help save the oppressed Jews in Europe during those difficult days, they gained the hatred of many, including myself. Along with most of my friends, I participated in a march to demonstrate our feelings toward Britain, the world, and the Jews who depended on us to bring them to Palestine, their land, no matter the sacrifices. I remember that march in Tel Aviv where we prayed as we walked that the Jews in Europe would endure the torment until the situation changed and the cloud was lifted (Memoirs of Yitzhak Shamir, pp. 34–36).
We have never heard of hypocrisy, deceit, and extreme duplicity more glaring than what the terrorist Shamir wrote. With his voice, he condemns the crimes of Nazism; with his heart, he prays for the Jews of Europe; and through his political actions, he and most Israeli leaders participated in conspiracies that led to the tragic deaths of millions of his relatives. Moreover, his memoirs erase any mention of his collaboration with the Nazis, as if it never happened. There is no reference to his negotiations with Nazi representatives, which are documented and preserved in the Holocaust memorial building in Jerusalem under two memoranda numbered (8/34151E). It is worth noting that British authorities arrested him in January 1941 on charges of collaborating with the Nazis and engaging in terrorism (Garoudi, p. 78; Dr. Al-Messiri, Zionism and Nazism, p. 164).
Returning to Roger Garoudi, who informs us on page 65 of his book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics that Ben-Gurion declared on July 12, 1939, before Zionist leaders: “If I were given the choice between rescuing all our children in Germany by transferring them to England or rescuing half of them by transferring them to ‘Israel,’ I would choose the second option. We must not consider the lives of these children alone but also the history of the ‘Israeli’ people.”
Ben-Gurion indeed acted according to this principle, bearing the guilt along with his fellow Zionists for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jewish children. When Ben-Gurion expressed this opinion, less than a month had passed since the infamous Kristallnacht in Germany, during which Jews were killed, thousands were imprisoned, their properties were looted, and their homes were destroyed. The events of that night served as a grim warning of the dark fate awaiting Jews under Nazi rule.
In these circumstances, Ben-Gurion stated his preference to save half of the Jewish children alive to bring them to Palestine, sacrificing the rest. Where are the teachings of the Talmud that make saving a Jewish life a sacred duty?
It is noteworthy that Ben-Gurion explicitly sought to save Jewish children without concerning himself with women, the elderly, or the disabled—those who were powerless to fend off the dangers threatening them. This is Zionism’s humanity!
We have heard and read much about the inhumanity of the Spanish Inquisition, during which Spanish Christians brutally persecuted Muslims and Jews. However, we have never heard even a hint of followers of one religion deliberately and knowingly condemning millions of their relatives and co-religionists to the Nazi ovens to collect funds—most of which they would confiscate for unaccountable purposes—not for saving Jews. (Sami Assasa, reading of Israel Shahak’s book “Is the Talmudic Judaism a Religion?”, p. 87).
We currently have examples in modern history of some Arab regimes collaborating with the Zionists at the expense of the Palestinian people, such as the sale of the Golan Heights by the Baathist butcher Hafez Al-Assad in 1967, and the support of some Arab regimes for Zionist massacres against our defenseless people in Gaza. For more information, refer to the book The War by American lawyer Bob Woodward to uncover what remains hidden!
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