Livingstone’s comments not based on ignorance

I have two books on my bookshelf which I have never read. 

The title of one in itself speaks volumes, The Transfer Agreement, The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, by Edwin Black. The back cover states that, as part of this pact, “the Zionists halted the worldwide Jewish-led anti-Nazi boycott that threatened to topple the Hitler regime in it’s first year”.

The other, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, by Lenni Brenner, shows on the cover a medal struck in Germany in 1938, which has a swastika on one side and the Star of David on the other. It tells the story of how that medal came about. Brenner says that the Ha’avara (pact) “removed the million-strong Zionist movement from the front line of anti-Nazi resistance”.