https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Nazi_fährt_nach_Palästina

In April 1933, von Mildenstein and Tuchler, along with their wives, embarked on a trip to Palestine. Tuchler aimed to demonstrate the development of a “national home” for Jews, seeking to convince von Mildenstein that Jewish emigration could be a solution to the Nazi’s “Jewish question”. This visit was part of a broader strategy by the Zionist Federation of Germany (ZVfD) to facilitate Jewish emigration through negotiations with the Nazi regime, which was exploring various options for removing Jews from Germany.

Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina

A Nazi goes to Palestine

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The whole foundation of Herzl political zionism is his belief that antisemitism is an inherent attribute of humans, really it’s that stupid. Theodore herzl was your average redditor parroting that greed is human nature but with antisemitism.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Here we see yet another negative result of this ideology that racism and bigotries are eternal human traits and not specific historically contextualized movements. If the enemy is eternal and can never be defeated, it really changes the calculus on what is to be done - it’s irrelevant to try and abolish racism now. It creates a sort of fatalistic acceptance of racism as a natural force of the world that can be co-existed with, utilized as a resource, etc. It makes it morally empty, just a thing that exists like water or air.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Lol so he basically believes that humans are genetically hardcoded to hate Jews? Like a baby born in rural nowhere will immediately recognize and start hating a Jew if one walked in?

      Honestly he’s probably wildly antisemitic and is only projecting that to everyone else so he feels better about himself. “I’m not the problem, everybody hates Jews!”

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Anti-Semitism, Herzl insisted, “is impossible to escape.” And anyone who says otherwise is a “soft-hearted” visionary, who believes that “the ultimate perfection of humanity” is “possible.” Herzl rejected as naïve the political Left view that humans can embrace equality. Humans are inherently corrupt and will forever remain so. Anyone “who would found this hope for improved conditions on the ultimate perfection of humanity, would indeed be painting a Utopia!”7

        For both Herzl and Hitler, the Jews constituted one people, distinct from the people in whose company they dwelt. “It might… be objected that I am giving a handle to anti-Semitism when I say we are a people—one people; that I am hindering the assimilation of Jews,” Herzl wrote. But this wasn’t the case, he countered. Anti-Semitism, he argued, was inherent in the souls of men. As such, it didn’t matter whether he called Jews a nation or a religious community. Either way, anti-Semitism would continue to flourish; it was an inescapable part of being a non-Jew. Gentiles had no choice but to be anti-Semites. In modern parlance, Herzl might say that hatred of Jews is part of the gentiles’ genetic code, and that no amount of social engineering is ever going to change it. So, assimilation could hardly be frustrated by Herzl calling Jews a distinct people, since anti-Semitism, permanent and irremediable, ensured that Jews would never be truly assimilated.

        From “Israel, a beachhead in the middle east” by Stephen Gowans.