Hitler 'solved the Jewish question' by exterminating European Jews, Norman Finkelstein claims

Political scientist Norman Finkelstein claimed during a podcast interview that the reason antisemitism is not widespread in Europe today is because Hitler "solved the Jewish question" by exterminating six million Jews. The discussion arose from a question about Zionism following a UK Green Party motion labeling Zionism as racism.

Political scientist and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein claimed during an interview on Briahna Joy Gray's podcast Bad Faith that the reason antisemitism is not widespread in Europe today is because "Hitler solved the Jewish question" by exterminating six million Jews. Finkelstein made the remark while explaining the original rationale of Zionism as an attempt to avoid persecution and assimilation. He added that if those Jews had remained in Europe, he believed antisemitism would still be quite high. The discussion stemmed from a question about Zionism following a UK Green Party motion that labeled Zionism as racism and called for a single democratic Palestinian state, effectively eradicating Israel. Israel's Foreign Ministry responded that the Green Party had "ceased to act as a political party and became a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism."