Blood Libel #21 | “Zionists collaborated with the Nazis.”
Anti-Zionist:
Zionists worked with the Nazis to push Jews to Palestine.
Pro-Zionist:
Do you mean the Haavara Agreement of 1933? Because if so, you’re weaponizing a desperate attempt to save Jewsfrom annihilation.
(Let them make a moral equivalence.)
Pro-Zionist:
The Haavara Agreement was a tragic arrangement between the Nazi regime and the Jewish Agency to let some Jews escape Germany — by transferring their assets to Palestine.
This wasn’t collaboration. It was rescue under impossible conditions.
Meanwhile:
The Mufti of Jerusalem literally collaborated with Hitler, lived in Berlin, and called for the extermination of Jews in the Middle East.
Hamas today openly praises Hitler and quotes Nazi propaganda.
So if you’re going to accuse anyone of aligning with genocidal regimes, start with the people who still glorify them.
BEYOND THE TALKING POINTS
One of the most cynical distortions in the anti-Zionist playbook is the claim that “Zionists collaborated with the Nazis.” This accusation isn’t just historically dishonest—it’s morally grotesque. It attempts to invert the roles of rescuer and executioner by equating desperate Jewish efforts to save lives with active Arab collaboration in genocide.
Let’s look at the facts.
The Haavara Agreement: A Tragic Attempt to Save Lives
In 1933, just months after Hitler rose to power, the Jewish Agency (the main Zionist institution in Palestine) signed the Haavara Agreement with the Nazi regime. The purpose was simple: allow German Jews to escape while retaining some of their assets by transferring them to British Mandate Palestine through the purchase of German goods.
Was this agreement controversial? Absolutely. Many Jews in Europe and America opposed it, fearing it would undermine the anti-Nazi boycott movement.
Was it collaboration? Absolutely not.
No Zionist leaders embraced Nazi ideology. They didn’t form military alliances, didn’t share goals, and didn’t assist in extermination. This was a desperate rescue mission under impossible conditions, signed in 1933—years before the Final Solution was conceived. By 1939, the Nazis had terminated the agreement altogether, and by then, the extermination of European Jewry was underway.
The agreement saved approximately 60,000 German Jews. To equate that act of life-saving pragmatism with Nazi collaboration is not only historically absurd—it’s a moral disgrace.
The Real Collaboration: The Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler
While anti-Zionists shout about the Haavara Agreement, they stay suspiciously quiet about a documented Nazi collaborator: Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
In 1941, al-Husseini traveled to Berlin, where he met personally with Adolf Hitler, lived in Nazi Germany for the rest of the war, and actively worked to align Arab nationalism with Nazi ideology.
His contributions included:
Blocking Jewish refugee immigration to Palestine—even children fleeing extermination.
Recruiting Bosnian Muslims into Waffen SS units, responsible for atrocities in Eastern Europe.
Broadcasting Arabic-language Nazi propaganda, inciting Arabs to “kill the Jews wherever you find them.”
Requesting that Nazi Germany extend the Final Solution to the Middle East.
This was not pragmatic diplomacy. This was full-throated, ideologically driven alignment with Nazi goals. He didn’t try to save Jews—he tried to ensure their annihilation.
Hamas, Hitler, and Modern Echoes
The ideological thread continues. Hamas, the ruling regime in Gaza, openly praises Hitler. In its charter, it recycles Nazi-style propaganda about global Jewish conspiracies. Senior Hamas leaders have quoted Hitler and praised the Holocaust as divine justice.
This is not just guilt by association. It’s ideological continuity. While Zionism has never glorified Hitler or the Nazis, parts of the Arab nationalist and Islamist world still do.
Let’s Be Honest About History
So let’s get this straight:
The Zionist movement negotiated with Nazis to rescue Jews—saving tens of thousands of lives in the 1930s, long before the full horror of the Holocaust was known.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of Palestinian nationalism at the time, joined forces with Hitler, worked to extend the Holocaust, and tried to block Jewish escape routes.
And today, Hamas, which claims to represent the Palestinian cause, continues to invoke Nazi imagery, glorify Hitler, and call for Jewish extermination.