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Zionism
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In 1902, Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, wrote to Cecil Rhodes, the arch-imperialist of southern Africa, and urged him to support Zionism "because it is something colonial." In "The Iron Wall," Jabotinsky called the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine "natives," whom he compared to the Sioux Indians. He called his fellow Zionists "colonists," who resembled the Pilgrim Fathers and Joshua Ben Nun.
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― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
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I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters take over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually seen the rabid phenomenon at work in modern and sunny Ar
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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