The Catholic Church and the Jews on the Road to the Holocosta
Chapter from the book:
Tansü,
Y.
E.
&
Kara,
F.
(eds.)
2023.
Selected Articles on Afro-Eurasian Studies.
Synopsis
The occupation and disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War gave Zionism the visa to settle in Palestine and establish an Israeli state. Within the framework of this plan, Zionism, which first received the support of the USA, England and France, made great efforts to eliminate or neutralize the second obstacle, the Vatican. At the beginning of 1919, he published a work called "Joseph Jacobs, Contribution of the Jews to Civilization, New York 1919" by a Jewish writer. This work started a strong war against the Vatican. The Vatican, which wanted to face this war openly, declared that Jews would not be allowed to settle in Palestine in any way. However, this policy implemented by the Vatican between 1922 and 1933 changed after 1933 under the pressure of Zionism and was completely shelved. After 1936, Zionism again targeted the Vatican. It was published in February 1936 in a British Catholic Newspaper with the article "Jewish Peril". Although the Vatican wanted to resist the attack, it could not avoid being a victim of Zionism. He was even accused of being violently anti-Semitic.
In this article, it will be focused on how the opposition of the Vatican was broken in accordance with the plans of the Jews to settle in Palestine between 1919-1939, the European public opinion was seized in favor of the Jews, and how a great anti-Semitism that would trigger the so-called genocide in Europe was set up before the Second World War.