Israel/Palestine

Your comments are valid but do not constitute a justification for Livingston to be castigated as a “disgusting Nazi apologist” or anti-Semitic.

I asked if British Jews and the Labour party had gone mad because such unjustified castigation is making both of them look more interested in ‘political correctness’ than in free-speech. I take it you do believe in the right of everyone to free speech?


- but good grief, linking Hitler to Zionism, and at best equating 'making aliyah' to deportations, are NOT criticisms of Israeli policy; they are sheer bigoted lunacy.

But Hitler WAS in the process of negotiating with Zionists in 1933 and for voluntary transfer, not ‘deportation’.
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement)

The Haavara Agreement was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933. The agreement was finalized after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the Jewish Agency) and the economic authorities of Nazi Germany. The agreement was designed to help facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine. While it helped Jews emigrate, it forced them to temporarily give up possessions to Germany before departing. Those possessions could later be re-obtained by transferring them to Palestine as German export goods.[1][2] The agreement was controversial at the time, and was criticised by many Jewish leaders both within the Zionist movement

Were you aware of these negotiations?