The answer is certainly not! Communism and Zionism taking hold among the Jews of the Pale of Settlement as competitive movements after 1880. When the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, they sought to impose their way of thinking on the entire Jewish population. As Jews, the Bolsheviks adhered to the belief that Jewish nationalism should be preserved, but they believed it should be orientated toward Communism. The communists regarded Zionism as an impractical scheme, wedded to British imperialism and impossible of achievement.
The Zionists, consisting of the more religious and orthodox Jews, stubbornly resisted this concept. As a result, the Communist Party established a special Jewish section to deal with the Zionists. They attempted with only partial success to win over the children of the Zionists by prohibiting the teaching of Zionism to children under twenty years of age. Now before labeling this as “anti-Semitism”, it should be remembered that these were measures imposed by one section of Jewry upon other Jews, and it should be remembered that Christians received no such preferential treatment.
This fight between Communists and Zionists has lasted right down to the present day. When the state of Israel was formed, tens of thousands of Zionists were permitted to emigrate from Russia and satellite territory to Palestine, a move that continues today! (Note: Christians were never permitted to emigrate from Communist Russia). However, Communist authorities have been exceedingly reluctant to permit young Jews to emigrate, and in many cases, permission has been denied. Thus the fight continues. However, the reader should remember that this is a fight between Jews. Whether Communists or Zionists, they still retain their Jewishness, and they stand united against all non-Jews. Moreover, although they travel different paths, both Communists and Zionists have the same common goal – domination of the world as clearly written in the Torah and the Talmud. Both work and plan for the day when the “chosen race” shall “inherit the Earth.” /Frank L. Britton: Behind Communism, 1979/
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