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If the Holocaust had been completed, which is to say either Germany wins, or at least holds out for another six months or so and is consequently able to effectively finish off the Jewish population of continental Europe, what would that mean for the Zionist movement in Palestine?

I found this demographic information for Palestine on Wikipedia:
Year Jews Christians Muslims Total
1931 175 89 760 1,033
1947 630 143 1,181 1,970

There was a major population increase between 1931 and 1947 as you can see but I don't know how much of that was due to the war, the Christian and Islamic populations boomed too after all, and I would think many Jews would have fled there during the 30s.

So in a situation where there are no Holocaust survivors in Palestine would an Israeli state be likely to emerge? The Zionists would still presumably have a pipeline of arms coming from Vichy supporters in the Levant but the British government would have no more desire to give Palestine independence than OTL and without the visual proof of the death camps I would think there would be less sympathy for the Zionists.

Was the Zionist movement strong enough without the Holocaust survivors to succeed? How strong would it be if it did emerge?
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