Once the Jewish state was established, the earliest European friends of Israel were often people on the left, who admired the communal life on the kibbutzim, and saw Israel as a great socialist experiment, led by wise old left-wing idealists, such as David Ben-Gurion. Residual guilt about the Holocaust bolstered this attitude.
在以色列建国以后，最早的一批欧洲支持者往往是些左派民众，他们羡慕那种集体农场的公共生活，并将以色列视为一个由戴维·本·古里安这些睿智的老左派理想主义者领导下的伟大社会主义实践。而对犹太人大屠杀所遗留下来的愧疚感更助长了这种态度。