Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism” — June 2 1895

" "In Paris, as I have said, I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism."

In Paris also gewann icn ein freieres Verhältnis zum Antisemitismus, den ich historisch zu verstehen und zu entschuldigen anfing. Vor Allem erkannte ich die Leere und Nutzlosigkeit der Bestrebungen "zur Abwehr des antisemitismus. "