Zionism threatens to bring anti-semitism full-circle
Zionism is very much a mirror image of
anti-Semitism. It was founded and based on an assumption that
assimilation is bound to fail, and that the Jews must resort to other
measures in order to protect their existence – as persons, but perhaps
even more significantly – as a supposed nation. David Ben-Gurion’s words
to the Mapai committee in 1938 reveal how the national aspect could
supersede the humanitarian concern to actual people: ”If I knew that it
was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to
England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I
would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of
these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.” In
that same year he spoke to the Jewish Agency in regards to the Évian
conference which sought to facilitate the plight of Jewish refugees,
saying, “[I do] not know if the conference will open the gates of other
countries. . . . But I am afraid [ it ] might cause tremendous harm to
Eretz Yisrael and Zionism. . . . and the more we emphasize the terrible
distress of the Jewish masses in Germany, Poland and Rumania, the more
damage we shall cause” — to Zionism and Eretz Israel by promoting
emigration to western countries. [Both
quotes at this link].
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/05/zionism-threatens-semitism/
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