@ohfook
No, at best this is an oversimplification and, at worst, a myth. The idea that Israel was created because of the Holocaust is simply not true. It ignores the 50 years of Zionist efforts that preceded it. The Holocaust didn’t create the State of Israel—it just made the price of not having one unbearable.
Zionism as a political movement began in the late 19th century, particularly after the publication of Theodor Herzl’s Der Judenstaat in 1896.
Then by the time WWII started, Jewish immigration to Palestine, the establishment of Jewish institutions, defence organisations, and settlements were already underway. Jews had created a quasi-state infrastructure: schools, a health system, political parties, and the Jewish Agency.
Also, in 1917 the Balfour Declaration acknowledged support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine—decades before the Holocaust. And The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (1922) also recognised Jewish national rights.
The holocaust might have underscored the urgency of Jewish statehood but was not the origin of the idea. The post-Holocaust global sympathy may have helped gain broader support at the United Nations in 1947, but Zionism did not begin in 1945.
Finally, making the erroneous claim that Israel was created because of the Holocaust erases the Jewish people’s agency and long-standing efforts toward self-determination. It frames the creation of Israel as a kind of guilt-driven gesture by the West, rather than the culmination of a sustained national liberation movement.
Essentially, the Jewish state was conceived, built, and yearned for long before the Holocaust — rooted in decades of Zionist vision, activism, and sacrifice, not merely as a moral response to genocide.