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Lenni BRENNER
ZIONISM IN THE AGE OF THE
DICTATORS
A reapparaisal
AAARGH reprints
Internet
2004
BRENNER :
ZIONISM I N THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
CROOM HELM
London & Canberra
LAWRENCE HILL
Westport, Connecticut
ISBN 0-7099-0628-5
ISBN 0-88208-164-0
1983
First Internet edition (<html>) by AAARGH in 1996
First Internet edition (<pdf>) by AAARGH in 2004
http://aaargh-international.org
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PREFACE
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.
Dealing with the issues brings difficult problems, one of the most difficult
arising out of the emotions evoked by the Holocaust. Can there by any doubt that
many of the United Nations delegates who voted for the creation of an Israeli state,
in 1947, were motivated by a desire to somehow compensate the surviving Jews for
the Holocaust? They, and many of Israel's other well-wishers, cathected the state
with the powerful human feelings they had toward the victims of Hitler’s monstrous
crimes. But therein was their error: they based their support for Israel and Zionism
on what Hitler had done to the Jews, rather than on what the Zionists had done for
the Jews. To say that such an approach is intellectually and politically
impermissable does not denigrate the deep feelings produced by the Holocaust.
Zionism, however, is an ideology, and its chronicles are to be examined with
the same critical eye that readers should bring to the history of any political
tendency. Zionism is not now, nor was it ever, co-extensive with either Judaism or
the Jewish people. The vast majority of Hitler's Jewish victims were not Zionists. It is
equally true, as readers are invited to see for themselves, that the majority of the
Jews of Poland, in particular, had repudiated Zionism on the eve of the Holocaust,
that they abhored the politics of Menachem Begin, in September 1939, one of the
leaders of the self-styled 'Zionist-Revisionist' movement in the Polish capital. As an
anti-Zionist Jew, the author is inured to the charge that anti-Zionism is equivalent to
anti-Semitism and 'Jewish self-hatred,.
It is scarcely necessary to add that all attempts to equate Jews and Zionists,
and therefore to attack Jews as such, are criminal, and are to be sternly repelled.
There cannot be even the slightest confusion between the struggle against Zionism
and hostility to either Jews or Judaism. Zionism thrives on the fears that Jews have
of another Holocaust. The Palestinian people are deeply appreciative of the firm
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support given them by progressive Jews, whether religious—as with Mrs Ruth Blau,
Elmer Berger, Moshe Menuhin, or Israel Shahak—or atheist—as with Felicia Langer
and Lea Tsemel and others on the left. Neither nationality nor theology nor social
theory can, in any way, be allowed to become a stumbling block before the feet of
those Jews, in Israel or elsewhere, who are determined to walk with the Palestinian
people against injustice and racism. It can be said, with scientific certainty, that,
without the unbreakable unity of Arab and Jewish progressives, victory over
Zionism is not merely difficult, it is impossible.
Unless this book were to become an encyclopaedia, the material had
necessarily to be selected, with all due care, so that a rounded picture might come
forth. It is inevitable that the scholars of the several subjects dealt with will
complain that not enough attention had been devoted to their particular specialties.
And they will be correct, to be sure; whole books have been written on particular
facets of the broader problems dealt with herein, and the reader is invited to delve
further into the sources cited in the footnotes. An additional difficulty arises out of
the fact that so much of the original material is in a host of languages that few
readers are likely to know. Therefore, wherever possible, English sources and
translations are cited, thus giving sceptical readers a genuine opportunity to verify
the research apparatus relied upon.
As readers are committed to discovering by reading this book, the
consequences of Zionist ideology deserve study and exposure. That is what is
attempted here. As an unabashed anti-Zionist, I clearly conclude that Zionism is
wholly incorrect; but that is my conclusion drawn from the evidence. The
conclusions are, in short, my own. As for the persuasiveness of the arguments used
in arriving at them, readers are invited to judge for themselves.
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ABBREVIATIONS
AJC American Jewish Committee —bourgeois assimilationist organisation.
AJC American Jewish Congress—Zionist organisation identified with rabbi Stephen
Wise.
AK Armia Krajowa (Home Army)—Polish underground affiliated to the government-
in-exile.
BUF British Union of Fascists.
CID British Criminal Investigation Division.
CPUSA Communist Party of USA.
CV Centralverein (Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith)—
assimilationist defence organisation.
DDP Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German Democratic Party).
Endeks National Democrats—anti-Semitic Polish party.
HOG Hitachdut Olei Germania (German Immigrants, Association in Palestine).
ILP Independent Labour Party—British socialist organisation.
INTRIA International Trade and Investment Agency — Zionist-organised company
selling German goods in Britain.
JFO Jewish Fighting Organisation—underground movement in the Warsaw ghetto.
JLC Jewish Labor Committee—anti-Zionist labour union organisation in America.
JNF Jewish National Fund—Zionist agricultural fund.
JnP Judische-nationale Partei (Jewish National Party)—Austrian Zionist party.
JPCJewish People’s Council—community defence group against Mosleyites in Britain.
JWV Jewish War Veterans—right-wing American ex-serviceman's grouping.
KB Korpus Bezpieczenstwa (Security Corps)—Polish underground movement
friendly to the Revisionists.
KPD Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Communist Party of Germany).
KPP Kommunistyczna Partja Polski (Communist Party of Poland).
Naras National Radicals—extreme anti-Semitic Polish party.
NEMICO Near and Middle East Commercial Corporation—Zionist company selling
German goods in the Middle East.
NPP National Peasant Party—Romanian party.
NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German
Workers' Party).
NZO New Zionist Organisation—Revisionist international organisation.
POUM Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (Workers, Party of Marxist Unity)—
Spanish left-wing party.
PPS Polska Partya Socyalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party).
SD Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service of the SS).
SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of
Germany).
SS Schutzstaffel (Protection Corps).
SWP Socialist Workers Party—American Trotskyist party.
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