Linking Zionism with Nazism borders on antisemitism itself

Dervla Murphy (Viewpoints, 30 April) writes that “Livingstone may not be everyone’s pin-up boy but he does know his history” and quotes various facts about negotiations between the Nazis and the German Zionist organisation in 1933.

These are essentially correct but create a totally misleading impression when read today knowing the Nazis’ later treatment of Jews.

In 1933, nobody believed the Nazis were intent on mass-murder — everyone assumed their main objective was to reduce ‘Jewish influence’.