Zionist Fascism’s collusive kinship with Nazi Poland (cir. 1935-39): a buried rap sheet of right-wing fifth columnism

Amidst the “socialist” Labor/WZO’s Haavara collusion, Jabotinsky’s (Fascist) NZO Revisionists found interesting bedfellows of their own…

Oct 09, 2024

“The essentials of Zionist doctrine on anti-Semitism were laid down well before the Holocaust: anti-Semitism was inevitable and could not be fought; the solution was the emigration of unwanted Jews to a Jewish state-in-the-making. The inability of the Zionist movement to take Palestine militarily compelled it to look for imperial patronage, which it expected to be motivated by anti-Semitism to some degree.”

—Lenni Brenner, “Zionism in the Age of Dictators,” ch. I

When the Labor Anglo-Zionists’ vital subsidiaries—the Zionist Federation for Germany (ZVfD), Jewish Agency, and World Zionist Organization (WZO)—facilitated the infamous 1933 Ha’avara (“Transfer”) Agreement with Nazi Germany, political football commenced within the broader Zionist cabal as the semi-Bolshevik Labor’s right-wing rivals—Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and his unabashedly fascist Revisionist goons—denounced Haavara in highly superficial “opposition” to Nazi Germany.

The weightlessly farcical nature of the Revisionist Zionists’ “anti-Nazi” organizing is evident in none other than their collaboration with the right-wing antisemitic goverment of Poland, at the time an ally of Hitler since the signing of the German-Polish nonaggression pact in late January of 1934. Poland’s then-Jewish population of three million (constituting roughly ten percent of the nation at the time) were economically scapegoated for the Great Depression in an intense right-wing cauldron of reactionary prejudice,1 yet the majority of Polish Jewry in spite of widespread institutional antisemitism:2

…refused to accept Jabotinsky’s slogan, ‘If you will not liquidate the diaspora, the diaspora will liquidate you.’

Remember the context of this Polish era:3

The worldwide depression had particularly baneful effects on the Polish Jews. Over a million were unemployed and unemployable, without land, effective skills, or the opportunity to use their talents. Dependent on charity, crowded into miserable and decaying slums, they existed on the edge of starvation, a drain on Poland's declining assets. Even those more fortunate Jews with money, talent, or friends increasingly found informal anti-Semitism defined as a policy of the state. Jews at the university increasingly faced public humiliation, physical harassment, and the constant, adamant expression of Polish hatred. Those in professional or commercial positions were driven into penury. In 1937 university students were segregated, a special Jewish ghetto of benches created. Even the more responsible and thoughtful Polish leaders could not hold back the rising tide of anti-Semitism. Those more opportunistic or prejudiced did not want to do so, but the very size of the Jewish community—3,500,000—compounded the Polish problem. What was to be done with the millions of superfluous Jews?

As historian Lenni Brenner notes, Jewish Poles faced an onslaught of pogromist violence from 1935-onwards, against which the left-wing socialist/assimilationist Labor Bund—unlike the do-nothing Zionists—fought against in defense legions on behalf of the persecuted Jewry.4 In spite of the immense anguish faced by the Polish Jewish population at the time, they—to the polar opposite mentality of modern Zionazi pseudo-“Jewish”5 snowflakes—sought to make the most of their circumstances and steadfastly resisted expulsion/emigration demands jointly advocated by antisemitic Polish rightists and their Jabotinskyite kin. The 1930s-era majority of Polish Jews were anti-Zionist, and it was for this reason that they—along with the anti-Zionist majority of Hungarian, German, and other European Jewish populations—were sent to the Holocaust death camps. Conform to Zionazism or perish!

Both the rank-and-file Polish antisemite masses (public opinion “greeted with satisfaction the many declarations of President Jabotinsky”6) and their right-wing, Nazi-collaborating government of the 1934-39 pact era—which ruthlessly discriminated against its 3.5-million Jewish population—found a warm friend and valued liaison in Jabotinsky and his 1935-established wannabe diaspora-liquidating7 New Zionist Organization (NZO):8

The Poles listened. A man who advocated smashing in the gates of Palestine with a million immigrants might well be a man who could aid in solving Poland's Jewish problem. To get rid of a million Jews, or even a great many Jews, would strengthen the country, mute the dangerous anti-Semitic plague, and ease social tensions—a net gain. Early in 1937 Jabotinsky came to a Warsaw dinner arranged by Meir Kahan9 with two dozen Polish officials, members of the secret service, army officers, and Count Lubinsky of the Foreign Office. Subsequently, there were constant contacts between various NZO representatives and the Polish government. What gradually evolved by 1938 was an unofficial alliance.

An estimated two-thirds of NZO backers were Polish residents in 1936 even as the immense majority of Jews loathed the Zionists—only ~5% of Jews voted for the Zionists in the late 1930s!10 Nazi Poland’s budding “Jewish friends” of the fanatically Judeo-Lebensraum fold even received special military preparation by mentors from the Polish Army for a scheduled invasion of Palestine on April 1940.11 Although the devised coup never materialized due to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland disrupting the latter’s military collusion with Revisionism, “weapons were provided for 10,000 men,” as scholar Tamar Wolofsky notes.12 This fifth columnist perfidy explicitly “prevented the active Polish branch of the Betar from fighting against Polish anti-Semitism and pogromists”:13

Schmuel Merlin, the then-Secretary General of the NZO, admitted that Revisionism, too, lacked foresight: ‘We did not consider that we had to fight in Poland. We believed the way to ease the situation was to take the Jews out of Poland. We had no spirit of animosity.’

Polish-NZO collaborationism facilitated illegal migration by the tens of thousands into Palestine14 to expel the Jewish population out of Poland, and also since:15

…both the Poles and the NZO felt that a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine would be to British advantage, even if established by force, neither felt they were being particularly disloyal to their British alignment. The Poles, then, would continue the NZO alliance even while depending on British protection in an increasingly hostile world of German expansion.

Nazi Poland’s Ambassador to Nazi Germany during the 1934-39 nonaggression pact, Józef Lipski, in 1938 promised the construction of a marvelous statue to the Third Reich’s third-rate mustached, testicle-missing, Austrian painter reject leader if (Zionistic) emigration objectives were obtained—Lipski’s own words here!1617

“[Hitler] has in mind an idea of settling the Jewish problem by way of emigration to the colonies in accordance with an understanding with Poland, Hungary, and possibly Rumania. At which time, I told him that if he finds such a solution we will erect to him a beautiful monument in Warsaw.”
—Józef Lipski, cir. Sep. 20-22, 1938

Lipski had “hardly exaggerated” considering the right-wing antisemitic “colonels’ regime” of Poland by 1938 wholeheartedly:18

…embraced the goal of large-scale Jewish emigration as official policy. ‘This surplus of Jews,’ declared Polska Zbrojna, a mouthpiece of the government, ‘hangs like a millstone around the neck of Poland and exercises a most fatal influence on the economic development of our country.’ In January 1938, OZON-the Camp of National Unity-publicly endorsed mass Jewish emigration in the fourth of its published ‘Thirteen Theses.’ ‘The solution to the Jewish problem in Poland,’ it stated flatly, ‘can be achieved above all by the most considerable reduction of Jews in the Polish state.’ On January 23, 1939, responding to a petition from the Sejm's 116 Endek deputies, Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski affirmed that his administration ‘would do all in its power to obtain outlets for [Jewish] emigration by international action.’

Just about the entire Polish antisemitic kinship with the virulently anti-Palestinian NZO Zionists was solidified in established groundwork by stooges of Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colonel Józef Beck.19 The Polish government “showed the the NZO more favours than any other Jewish party” (much as their German Nazi counterparts gave preferential treatment to the Third Reich’s residential ZVfD—“Zionist Federation of Germany”).20 To Colonel Beck, the NZO was a “heaven-sent ally”;21 to average Polish Jews, a legion of traitors.22 The Jewish anti-Zionist Labor Bund—of anti-Fascist and socialist working-class orientation:23

…did not hesitate to accuse the Zionists publicly of disloyalty to Poland, alleging that emigration was irreconcilable with patriotism.

The right-wing fascists of Nazi Poland and the right-wing fascists of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism concurred in antisemitic scorn of the Polish Jewry’s majority anti-Zionist assimilationism and in contempt for Palestinian dignity:24

The Polish government also supported Jabotinsky’s claim for a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan and pressed the British authorities to facilitate emigration to Palestine.

As Joseph Massad excellently puts it, “Poland’s antisemitic history of targeting its own Jewish citizens and its role in targeting the Palestinian people must be exposed as parts of the very same crime.”25 In observing the Fourth Reich’s kinship revival with Poland’s present right-wing Holocaust-revisionist26 government in the spring of last year,27 I’m sorry to say that—disagree if you stubbornly insist—once again nothing new has transpired under the sun.

Giveon Cornfield (Nov. 2012), “Lilian,” p. 90.

J. Bowyer Bell (1996), “Terror Out of Zion: Fight for Israeli Independence,” pt. I.

Ibid.

Lenni Brenner (1984), “The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism From Jabotinsky to Shamir,” p. 101.

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