rylah
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This comes directly from Herzl in his diary:1. The author explains in detail how many anti-Semites actually support Zionism.
"It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not wish to bring about the impoverishment of the countries that we leave. At first they must not be given large fees for this; otherwise we shall spoil our instruments and make them despicable as 'stooges of the Jews.' Later their fees will increase, and in the end we shall have only Gentile officials in the countries from which we have emigrated. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies." (The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl. Vol. 1, edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn, page 83-84)
Many Jews, the world over, support the Palestinian people and see zionism as the greatest danger not only to Palestine, but to the Jewish people as well.2. The author himself (a university professor in Israel) supports Palestinian rights.
Anyone who has studied this simple topic knows this. When one is charged with antisemitism, it generally means that they have brought up a point that the zionists don't want spoken of. The antisemitism charge is a trick the zionists use to keep their crimes hidden and they have admitted this:3. Part of his very last sentence says: "[T]he equation between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism must ... be rejected."
Former Israeli minister, Shulamit Aloni, fearlessly admitted that "anti-Semitism is a trick that we always use"
As outrageous Hertzl words sound, I'm not sure we can fully comprehend the time line in which he contemplated different strategies, or the situation in Europe and Palestine.
However it's not difficult to connect the dots between the simultaneous Pogroms in Europe as well as in middle east, specifically Syria-Palestine . Zionism came as a solution to antisemitism, not an idealistic hope that antisemitism will end with the establishment of Israel - on the contrary as the painful realization, that it's not going anywhere.
I see that video way too often being used, as an excuse to the most blatant racist arguments.
And unfortunately such arguments are dominant in 99% of anti-Israel rhetoric.
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