Ken Livingstone surrounded by media. Anthony Devlin/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Dear Mr Livingstone,
You have certainly achieved something out of the ordinary. I think few can have foreseen the day when Twitter was abuzz with fevered talk of the Haavara Agreement. You are clearly aware that recollection of this initiative is embarrassing to some Zionists and, indeed, always has been.
In the 1930s American Zionists, in particular, were divided, with some furious that the worldwide Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany had been over-ridden in the effort to aid the escape of the German Jews. But you trumpet it as some kind of “gotcha” revelation. “Look how evil the Zionists are”, is the subtext of your rant; “they even negotiated with the Nazis!”
