In this paper I challenge this common view and show instead that the German Communist Party (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) in the Weimar Republic already held a biased antizionist position which had the same patterns, that became characteristic of the ‘new antisemitic anti-Zionism’. For the Weimar KPD, ‘Zionism’ was already a form of ‘fascism’ which was to be fought against in the same manner as National Socialism. The Central Committee of the KPD declared in its only official paper on the so-called ‘Jewish Question’, Communism and the Jewish Question (Kommunismus und Judenfrage, 1932), that ‘we are fighting Zionism as [sic] we are fighting National Socialism’. I will demonstrate how the KPD was able to equate ‘Zionism’ with National Socialism in their ideology. First, I will argue that the anti-Zionism of the 1920s was based upon the concepts of the nation and nationalism and, second, on the stereotypes of ‘Jews’ that existed in the communist movement in the Weimar Republic. Given a new understanding of the roots of anti-Zionism, the appearance of anti-Zionism in the 20th century requires a re-evaluation: It can not only be seen as a form of secondary antisemitism, but also should be perceived as a consequence and moulding of the older, traditional, pre-Shoah, or ‘primary’ antisemitism.

https://engageonline.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/from-jewish-capital-to-the-jewish-fascist-legion-in-jerusalem-the-development-of-antizionism-in-the-german-communist-party-kpd-in-the-weimar-republic-1925-1933/