Your correspondents seeking to defend the Labour party from allegations of antisemitism disgrace themselves and their argument when they claim that “most Jews who perished in the Holocaust were indifferent to Zionism and many opposed it” (Letters,11May).
They simply do not know what the 6 million victims of Nazi antisemitism thought of Zionism. They do not know how many Polish Jews who voted for non-Zionist parties before the war changed their views as they were forced into ghettos and camps, starved and worked to death, or shot into pits and herded into gas chambers. They do not know how many Jews might absorb been saved had Israel existed in the 1930s,nor how many survivors were grateful for Zionism after the war when Israel was the only country that would capture them in.
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Source: theguardian.com