That's a disingenuous statement. Zonists created Israel but without Hitler it is doubtful Israel would happen in 1947
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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Hitler created Israel by mistake
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squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It wasn’t a mistake. Zionism is the one topic where (some) Jews and Nazis/Antisemites are in agreement.
For zionist Jews zionism means they have their own place somewhere where they won’t be persecuted.
For antisemites zionism means that Jews disappear from their country of origin without any effort on the side of the antisemites. In fact for people who are antisemites but still dislike the concept of genocide, supporting zionism is a “more ethical” way of getting rid of the Jews.
Because of that both the Nazis and antisemites all around the western world supported zionism.
Also keep in mind the timeline of all of that. Antisemitism is really old. Like centuries old. Zionism really started to pick up steam in the late 19th century and started to actually get implemented from 1917 on. Nazis became a thing around 1919.
They got to power in 1933 and the holocaust started in earnest around 1938/1939.
There was a lot of time between making “soft” antisemitism mainstream and gassing Jews. The concentration camps didn’t spontaneously appear the day hitler got elected, and like always in politics, the Nazis first started with more pallatable forms of antisemitism (like supporting that all Jews move out) before moving on to more extreme forms (ending with the most extreme possible: basically an extermination order).