Zionism and the Holocaust. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)

Publication: Spectator

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From Farrel Lifson

Sir: I read Geoffrey Wheatcroft's `The Jewish answer?' (14/21 December) with great interest. Mr Wheatcroft goes into great detail to document Jewish secular and religious objections to the formation of a Jewish state, but curiously all his objections come to a screeching halt in the period before the second world war. Mr Wheatcroft, it seems, has totally neglected the immense impact that the Holocaust had on Jewish opinion and thought. Indeed, he mentions the Holocaust only once and...

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