Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine | Barry Yourgrau (The Nation, 2024-09-03)

Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine | Barry Yourgrau (The Nation, 2024-09-03)

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/weimar-anti-fascist-palestine-zionism/———

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

… he published a controversial German-language political and cultural weekly called Orient, ... Orient offers a fascinating window into the forces already stirring there, as well as the travails of some of its German Jewish refugees. After almost a year of being the target of constant hostility …, Orient was finally silenced when a bomb blew its print shop to pieces.

… the story of my father’s exile and his milieu … evokes a dark, internecine version of the currents swirling toward Israel’s birth, currents that have swept through the decades to today’s horrors in Gaza and the West Bank…

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