Hitler Push: Anti-Zionist Jews into the arms of Zionism

With considerable  perspicacity the CV  remarked that the recognition by the  Zionists of “certain postulates of the  German  nationalists” provided the anti-Semites with ammunition, and in a  declaration of policy made by the CV,  there was even talk of Zionism having  dealt the movement a “stab in the back” in the struggle against fascism.13 But the Zionists saw that only  the anti- Semitic  Hitler was likely to push anti-Zionist German Jews into the arms of Zionism.  Robert Weltsch who was  then editor-in-chief of the German Zionist paper, Judische Rund-schau, declared on January 8, 1933 (three weeks after Hitler’s assumption of power) during the meeting of the local ZVFD Council. “The anti-liberal character of German nationalism [i.e., the reactionary tendencies of the German bourgeoisie — K.P.] meet with the anti-liberal position of Zionism and here we are faced with the chance of finding, not a basis for understanding but one for discussion.” 14