TrismegistusMx

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Is Zionism just Fascism? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Zionism predates fascism, but they're inextricably intertwined ever since the Haavara Agreement.

The Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, negotiated by Eliezer Hoofein, director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, was agreed to by the Reich Economics Ministry in 1933, and continued, with declining German government support, until it was wound up in 1939. Under the agreement, Jews emigrating from Germany could use their assets to purchase German-manufactured goods for export, thus salvaging their personal assets during emigration. The agreement provided a substantial export market for German factories in British-ruled Palestine. Between November 1933, and 31 December 1937, 77,800,000 Reichmarks, or $22,500,000, (values in 1938 currency) worth of goods were exported to Jewish businesses in Palestine under the program. By the time the program ended with the start of World War II, the total had risen to 105,000,000 marks (about $35,000,000, 1939 values).

Emigrants with capital of £1,000, (about $5,000 in 1930s currency value) could move to Palestine in spite of severe British restrictions on Jewish immigration under an immigrant investor program similar to the modern United States EB-5 visa. Under the Transfer Agreement, about 39% of an emigrant's funds were given to Jewish communal economic development projects, leaving individuals with about 43% of the funds.

The Haavara Agreement was thought by some German circles to be a possible way to solve the "Jewish problem." The head of the Middle Eastern division of the foreign ministry, the anti-Nazi politician Werner Otto von Hentig, supported the policy of settling Jews in Palestine. Hentig believed that if the Jewish population was concentrated in a single foreign entity, then foreign diplomatic policy and containment of the Jews would become easier. Hitler's own support of the Haavara Agreement was unclear and varied throughout the 1930s. Initially, Hitler seemed indifferent to the economic details of the plan, but he supported it in the period from September 1937 to 1939.

Western media dusts off Putin is dying trope in c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

We're all dying, but cowards and tyrants die a thousand times before their deaths.

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In a "all stations abandoned" scenario with minimal infrastructure damage, what is the longest amount of time that electrical power could reasonably be expected to last? (lemmygrad.ml)
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From a LW refugee, thank you. In honor of welcoming me to your community, I present the post that resulted in my execution at the hands of the Zionists. in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I figured they'd have something cowardly to say.

From a LW refugee, thank you. In honor of welcoming me to your community, I present the post that resulted in my execution at the hands of the Zionists. in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

It took about 10 minutes after I tagged the server admins to be permabanned.

From a LW refugee, thank you. In honor of welcoming me to your community, I present the post that resulted in my execution at the hands of the Zionists. in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not according to their words, but definitely according to their actions. As I said on my old profile, "A Nazi is as a Nazi does."

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Did you know the about Haavara Agreement? Developed by Nazi Germany and Zionist Jews, it was a plan to solve the "stateless Jew problem," by binding the religion to Palestine. (lemmygrad.ml)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine. Emigrants sold their assets in Germany to pay for essential goods (manufactured in Germany) to be shipped to Mandatory Palestine. The agreement was controversial and was criticised by many Jewish leaders both within the Zionist movement (such as the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky) and outside it, as well as by members of both the Nazi Party and the German public. For German Jews, the agreement offered a way to leave an increasingly hostile environment in Germany; for the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, it offered access to both immigrant labour and economic support; for the Germans it facilitated the emigration of German Jews while breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933, which had mass support among European and American Jews and was thought by the German state to be a potential threat to the German economy.

The agreement was controversial both within the Nazi party and in the Zionist movement. As historian Edwin Black put it, "The Transfer Agreement tore the Jewish world apart, turning leader against leader, threatening rebellion and even assassination." Opposition came from the mainstream US leadership of the World Zionist Congress, in particular Abba Hillel Silver and American Jewish Congress president Rabbi Stephen Wise. Wise and other leaders of the Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 argued against the agreement, narrowly failing to persuade the Nineteenth Zionist Congress in August 1935 to vote against it.

The right-wing Revisionist Zionists and their leader Vladimir Jabotinsky were even more vocal in their opposition. The Revisionist newspaper in Palestine, Hazit Haam published a sharp denunciation of those involved in the agreement as "betrayers", and shortly afterwards one of the negotiators, Haim Arlosoroff was assassinated.

From a LW refugee, thank you. In honor of welcoming me to your community, I present the post that resulted in my execution at the hands of the Zionists. in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonus:

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From a LW refugee, thank you. In honor of welcoming me to your community, I present the post that resulted in my execution at the hands of the Zionists. (lemmygrad.ml)