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Zionism
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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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The ancient ideal of an elect holy monotheistic congregation was reinterpreted in an isolationist secular plan of action. Zionism, from its inception, was an ethnocentric nationalist movement that firmly enclosed the historical people of its own invention, and barred any voluntary civil entry into the nation its platform began to design. At the same time, any withdrawal from the people was depicted as an unforgivable offense, and assimilation as a catastrophe; an existential danger to be averted
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― The Invention of the Jewish People
― The Invention of the Jewish People
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