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Unwilling conscripts beaten and starved generally make poor soldiers, yes.

Not sure about polish jews, but Russian jews were conscripted just as often as any other russian and fought just as well as other conscripst in the Russian army, i.e as long as they were constantly supervised and they didn't have a good chance of running away.

But they sometimes post interesting articles defending them, so it's still worth challenging them.

Where did you get the "Jews did not fight" claim? There were ~100,000 jews in the german army in WWI https://archives.mod.gov.il/sites/English/Exhibitions/The_Jewish_Combatant_Collection/Pages/Jewish-soldiers-if-the-German-Army.aspx Searching for "Judeopolonia" I get a 19th century anti-semetic...

In 1941? Not only didn't he know, most of the atrocities hadn't started yet.

Interesting, thanks. I wonder how Ben Gurion managed to keep from bursting into laughter at the suggestion, especially delivered to the effective Prime Minister of the Jewish state in Palestine.

Seriously?! That I hadn't heard about. Who thought that was a good idea?

No, it would not. It was actually tried - the problem is virtually no Jews were interested. https://www.britannica.com/place/Jewish-Autonomous-Region The same thing happened when Hertzel and the British government suggested Uganda as a refuge for Jews from Russia (and other places, but at the...