Although supporters of Israel are always quick to attack critics of the Jewish state as vulgar anti-Semites, the state of Israel and Zionists are no strangers to alliances and friendships with anti-Semitism.

Englishman Chaim Weizmann, one of the founding fathers of Zionism and Israel’s first president, played on the anti-Jewish prejudice of many British public office holders in his efforts to secure British support for the establishment of a Jewish state. Weizmann often told his listeners that a Jewish state would mean less Jews in Great Britain; something naturally desired by anti-Semitic persons.

In recent years, there has been much effort by Zionists propagandists to publicize a meeting between Palestinian (unpopular) leader Hajj Amine al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler for the purposes of maligning the Palestinian movement. Promoters of the infamous photo claim that instead of being actuated by a principle of the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend (the Palestinians only sought out the Nazis in order to undermine the British occupation of their country), the photo, they argue, is a reflection of innate Palestinian/Arab/Islamic anti-Semitism and the Palestinian resistance is just a continuation of a Nazi war against the Jews. Alas, only people capable of crafting such lies would end up believing them too.

What is often not publicized from that era is that right-wing Zionist of the Lehi front (precursor to the Likud) also sought out an alliance with Nazis:

During the 1940s, [Yatzhik Shamir, future prime minister of Israel] was a leader of Lehi, a Jewish underground organization. It was known as the “Stern Gang” to British authorities, against whom it conducted terrorist acts in the Middle East throughout World War II while it attempted to develop alliances with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Indeed, there was a major difference between Shamir’s Lehi and the Irgun Zvei Leumi, another underground extremist group. With the outbreak of World War II, the Irgun declared a cease-fire in its activities against British targets and some of its leaders joined British military and intelligence units to fight the Nazis. It resumed its anti-British attacks only after the tide had turned against the German-Italian axis.

Lehi, led by Avraham Stern until he was killed by the British, never abandoned its strong anti-British and anti-Western position, even as Nazi armies swept into nearby Greece and threatened Cairo. The group’s initial goal was to form an alliance between Zionism and the Axis Powers.

According to well-documented evidence collected by Hebrew University professor Yehuda Bauer, the Lehi leaders first approached representatives of fascist Italy and proposed a “Mediterranean Treaty,” according to which an independent Hebrew state in Palestine would help Italy achieve total strategic and commercial domination in the Mediterranean region.

When the overtures to the Italians elicited no serious response from Rome, Stern and his colleagues dispatched a representative to meet in Lebanon in early 1941 with a German agent. They later sent the German Embassy in Ankara a detailed proposal for Zionist-Nazi cooperation. The Lehi proposal offered to help the Germans force the British out of Palestine in return for permission to establish a Jewish state there to which European Jewry would be transferred by the Nazis. This fantastic plan emphasized the ‘’common nationalist and totalitarian bonds” between Nazi ideology and Lehi’s revisionist Zionism.

It is one thing to seek an alliance with anti-Semites in an effort to pacify opposition to a military occupation, it is another to seek them overseas. Recent years have seen the anti-Semitic European Right embrace Israel like never before. Not out of any love for the Jewish people, but because they hate Muslims (more) and have found a convenient ad-hoc ally in Israel. The Jewish state is portrayed as a bulwark against Islamic radicalism. Although not enlisted, they are welcomed nonetheless by many Israelis whom should know better (on a separate note, some Israeli efforts have even received praise from White supremacists).

English Defense League; a skinhead, anti-Muslim group, holds up an Israeli flag in support for the Jewish state. Is the image of support Israel wants?

And the president of the neo-fascist British National Party, Nick Griffin, recently spoke about his support for Israel claiming during prime time on the BBC that the BNP was “the only political party which in the clashes between Israel and Gaza stood full square behind Israel’s right to deal with Hamas terrorists.” First, notice how this Hitler-wanna be refers to an Israeli massacre of over 900 Palestinians, of whom over 400 were children, simply as “clashes” and “deal with”.

And I am sure Israel appreciates the endorsement from such a fascist since now a declared fascist, Avigdor Lieberman, is the foreign minister of the nation. With friends like these. . .