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The fight against Germany has been carried out for months by every Jewish community, conference, trade organisation, by every Jew in the world … we shall let loose a spiritual and a material war of the whole world against Germany.

The fight against Germany has been carried out for months by every Jewish community, conference, trade organisation, by every Jew in the world […] we shall let loose a spiritual and a material war of the whole world against Germany.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky (Zionist leader) in the newspaper Natcha Retch, 1934 (After starting the international Jewish boycott in March 1933, the Zionists brokered the Haavara Agreement in August 1933 with Germany, to divert the industrial output of the export-dependent nation to Mandatory Palestine)