Heydrich 1936 letter on Jewish emigration to Palestine
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Reinhard Heydrich wrote approvingly of helping Jews emigrate to Palestine, seeing it as consistent with antisemitic goals of removing Jews from Germany, showing that the current far-right celebration of Netanyahu's call for diaspora Jews to move to Israel reproduces this same logic.
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As told 13
“Jews are an ingenious active people. We would like to collaborate, trade with them, we just don't want them here. We should help them to move to Palestine.”
“Reinhard Heydrich. That guy who wrote in '36, 'We wish Jewish people all the best. But not here. Go to Palestine, we will support you there, just not here.'”
“We don't want assimilationist Jews, but if they move there they are a great nation, we will have wonderful relations with them, we will support them”
What it carries
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contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
Zionist anti-Semitism
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civilizational erasure
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unholy alliances
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Reinhard Heydrich13Anders Behring Breivik11Moshe Dayan4Benjamin Netanyahu11Arthur Balfour3Marek Edelman3Bezalel Smotrich3Itamar Ben-Gvir4
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Every retelling 13
Reinhard Heydrich wrote approvingly of helping Jews emigrate to Palestine, seeing it as consistent with antisemitic goals of removing Jews from Germany, showing that the current far-right celebration of Netanyahu's call for diaspora Jews to move to Israel reproduces this same logic., illustrating Zionist antisemitism
Reinhard Heydrich wrote in 1936 that he wished Jewish people well, but not in Germany; they should go to Palestine. Žižek identifies this as the structural template for today's 'Zionist antisemitism' embraced by figures like Breivik and implicitly by Netanyahu-friendly right-wingers., illustrating Zionist antisemitism
Holocaust architect Heydrich wrote in 1936 distinguishing Zionist Jews (to be supported in moving to Palestine) from assimilationist Jews (unwanted); Balfour and Breivik said the same, anti-Semites supporting Israel to rid Europe of Jews., illustrating civilizational erasure
Heydrich wrote that Jews are a wonderful nation worth collaborating with, but not in Germany, they should go over there, cited as evidence for 'antisemitic Zionism'., illustrating antisemitic Zionism
From Balfour (who wanted Jews to leave Europe) through Heydrich's 1936 text distinguishing Zionist from assimilationist Jews, to Breivik, a consistent line of antisemites supports Jews moving to Israel so they stop bothering Europe, a logic that culminates today in pro-Israel antisemitism., illustrating antisemitism and Zionism
Reinhard Heydrich, father of the Holocaust, distinguished integration Jews (to be eliminated) from Zionist Jews (useful, could go to Palestine), an early articulation of what Žižek calls Zionist antisemitism, now continued by Trump and Breivik., illustrating Zionist antisemitism,unholy alliance