But it's much more than that. It goes all the way back to the story of Rezso Kaztner, the Zionist Jew who convinced non-Zionists Jews in Hungary to not resist going to Auschwitz, even though he knew what it would mean for them, while arranging to have his friends sent to Palestine. This was made into a play by Jim Allen and produced by socialist Ken Loach--who some have called Britain's greatest filmmaker. The first time around, in 1987, the play was cancelled before the first performance due to outrage from British Zionists. It was eventually shown in 1999. Many anti-Zionists members of the British Labour party defended Ken Loach. This episode created the ammunition which got Corbyn and many members of the British Labour Party removed from the party on the basis of alleged anti-Semitism from 2017 to 2019. Many if not most of those expelled members, like Tony Greenstein, were themselves Jewish. Ultimately, the play was based on well established facts. Furthermore, the actions of Kaztner were not inconsistent with what other Zionists had been doing as far back as 1933, when they started officially cooperating with Nazis to help force Jews out of Germany and into Palestine. Zionists blocked the planned worldwide Boycott of Nazis in 1933, and later in the 1940's convinced countries including USA not to take in Jewish refugees--because Zionists believed they should be going (in many cases against their wishes) to Palestine.
So this article pulls together the complete Kaztner-Loach-Corbyn story which I have never seen all in one place. As well as connecting it to Owen Jones.
