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The truth about Nazis and Zionists.
A favorite trope of anti-Semites, especially on the left, is that there was an underlying affinity between Zionists and Nazis (both wanted to get Jews out of Europe), and that Zionists were somehow guilty of collaboration. Like so many libels, this one contains a grain of truth: the Zionist leadership negotiated with the Nazi regime to get permission for over 30,000 German Jews to come to Palestine. But in reality this was but a desperate measure on the part of the Yishuv to save some Jews when the world was closing its doors to refugees. Furthermore, explains Samuel Miner, Nazi Germany was not at all well-disposed to the establishment of a Jewish state, and was eager to kill Jews in the Middle East:
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A favorite trope of anti-Semites, especially on the left, is that there was an underlying affinity between Zionists and Nazis (both wanted to get Jews out of Europe), and that Zionists were somehow guilty of collaboration. Like so many libels, this one contains a grain of truth: the Zionist leadership negotiated with the Nazi regime to get permission for over 30,000 German Jews to come to Palestine. But in reality this was but a desperate measure on the part of the Yishuv to save some Jews when the world was closing its doors to refugees. Furthermore, explains Samuel Miner, Nazi Germany was not at all well-disposed to the establishment of a Jewish state, and was eager to kill Jews in the Middle East:
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