Anna picks up on an aspect of Israeli state mythology that justifies the dispossession of Palestinians as an essential reparation after the Holocaust. The myth mischaracterizes Zionism though. The quest for a Jewish state in Palestine was ongoing for decades before the Holocaust. https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1312056370045345792

The Nazis's immense campaign of extermination did provide Israel with many Jewish refugees who contributed to the "favorable demographics" it required to set up an ethnocentric settler state. It also may have helped sway the minds of crucial Western leaders into supporting...

a Jewish state and created a Zionist consensus among Jews worldwide. But I'm not convinced that the Holocaust was indispensable to the Zionist project.

There were already hundreds of thousands of European Jewish settler in Mandatory Palestine, & declaring an exclusive Jewish...

state was bound to create a large flow of Jewish refugees from around the Middle East regardless of the fate of European Jewry, as sectarianized nationalist societies of the region became relatively unsafe for native Jews as their majorities responded to Israeli independence.

The British position on a Jewish state in Palestine was quite clear after 1917, as shown by the very favorable policy of the Mandate toward the European Jewish settlers in the following years - in contrast to its orientation toward Palestinians. This combined with the reality...

...of British hegemony in the Middle East until the conclusion of the Second World War ensured the likely success of the Zionist project regardless of the Third Reich's policy toward European Jews.

Finally, while there was a shift toward widespread acceptance of Zionism by Jews around the world post-Holocaust, Israel's creation was not at all a democratic process, let alone the manifestation of the collective desire of Jews globally - except in the state ideology, that is!

Regardless of what happened in Europe, the formation of a Zionist state would mean war between it & the newly independent Arab states. Such a war would likely polarize opinions and engender support for Israel among the Jewish diaspora, even in the hypothetical absence of...

...the Nazi's genocide.

While the Holocaust & World War 2 did lead to many European Jews seeking refuge in Palestine, it is hard to say what the inflows would have looked like if the Holocaust hadn't occurred...

It is plausible that a significant portion of the Jews butchered by Hitler would have otherwise eventually emigrated to Israel, and - further - that their numbers might have exceeded those of the refugees who actually ended up moving to Palestine in response to the Holocaust.