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I think it would be unfair to claim that Keynes supported Zionism with 
malicious intent, namely 
 
> .... with the desire 
> to help members 
> of the despised group emigrate to somewhere else, voluntarily 
> or otherwise. 
> 
 
There was hardly an other academic British economist of Keynes' time who 
personally surrounded himself with so many members of the allegedly 
"despised group": Piero Sraffa, Erwin Rothbarth, Hans Singer, and Edward 
Rosenbaum were mentioned in previous postings. 
 
Richard Kahn had a prominent part in Keynes' academic and personal life and 
he features repeatedly on the pages of  the _General Theory_. Keynes is 
known to have  intervened in order to have Kahn elected to a fellowship at 
King's College - which was Keynes's own college. Keynes wanted him _there_ - 
and not "somewhere else". 
 
Nicholas Kaldor was an emigre economist from Hungary supported by Keynes in 
Cambridge. 
 
Keynes' association in Cambridge with and support for the philosopher Ludwig 
Wittgenstein, jewish emigre from Austria to Britain, is well  known. 
 
Keynes was associated in deep friendship with the Jewish banker Carl 
Melchior from Hamburg. When the Nazis persecuted him and Melchior  died of a 
heart attack in December 1933, Keynes - who was often in Germany before  - 
refused ever to go to Hamburg again, writing to the mayor of Hamburg in 
1934: "After the death of my friend [Carl Melchior, GMA]... there is nothing 
that could attract me to Hamburg" (Robert Skidelsky  _John Maynard Keynes 
..._ vol.2, Penguin, 1992, p.486 ) Actually, Keynes never went to any place 
in Germany again after that. 
 
He would have behaved otherwise if the above quoted statement had been a 
valid observation  about his motives. 
 
Best regards, 
Michael Ambrosi 
 
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