Why Ken Livingstone has it so wrong over Hitler and Zionism per David Baddiel in Opinion in The Guardian

Another catch-up article based upon The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/06/ken-livingstone-hitler-zionism-jews

'So … Ken … A lot of people – predominantly the good people, of course, of the British left – have been tweeting to tell me that Ken just "stated a fact". Here is the problem with what Livingstone said. Because Ken Livingstone did not state a fact.

The statement "Hitler supported Zionism" is not a fact. It's an interpretation. An interpretation of a particular historical moment, in the 1930s, when the forced emigration of Jews from Germany was pushed further along by various Nazi economic incentives allowing those who fled to Palestine to get some of their stolen assets back.

That is not Adolf Hitler supporting the idea of a Jewish state (even writing that sentence looks ridiculous). It is the Nazis taking advantage of the terror and despair of fleeing refugees to get more of them to leave the country. It is just the thin edge of the wedge of Nazi horror.'

Do read the rest of the article.