What great personalities have thought about it
- Quotation from Avraham Burg “A state lacking justice cannot survive” — Aug. 29 2003
A politician of the "Zionist Left" (1985-1995), Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization (1995-1999) and then Speaker of the Knesset (1999-2003), in August 2003, Avraham Burg announced his break with Zionism in the text from which this quote is taken. - Quotation from Nelson Mandela “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” — Dec. 4 1997
In his speech during the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. - Quotation from Bertrand Russell “Every expansion ...to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate” — Jan. 31 1970
In his last message, read at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo. - Quotation from Bertrand Russell “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country” — Jan. 31 1970
Message to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo (Feb. 70), written just before his death (excerpt). - Quotation from Charles De Gaulle “And these are met with a resistance which it in turn calls terrorism” — Nov. 27 1967
At a famous press conference. - Quotation from Albert Einstein “The emergence ...of the Herut, closely akin … to the Nazi and Fascist parties” — Dec. 1948
Commenting, with Hannah Arendt and twenty-six others, on the creation of Herut, the party of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and ancestor of the Likud of Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. - Quotation from Hannah Arendt “The emergence ...of the Herut, closely akin … to the Nazi and Fascist parties” — Dec. 1948
Commenting, with Albert Einstein and twenty-six others, on the creation of Herut, the party of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and ancestor of the Likud of Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. - Quotation from Gandhi “They have erred grievously in seeking to impose themselves on Palestine” — Jul. 14 1946
In 1946, Gandhi said of the Jews that “the world should have been their home”, and estimates that they ‘erred greviously’ in “seeking to impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of America and Britain, and now with the help of naked terrorism”. - Quotation from Walter [Lord Moyne] Guinness “Racial domination by these newcomers over the original inhabitants” — June 9 1942
Expressing in the British House of Lords his hostility to the Zionist project. This hostility led to his assassination in Cairo on 6 November 1944 by two Lehi terrorists. The bodies of the two assassins are now buried at the "Monument of Heroes" in Jerusalem. - Quotation from Gandhi “The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me” — Nov. 26 1938
In a text in the newspaper Harijan exposing his position on the "Arab-Jewish question". - Quotation from Albert Einstein “I should much rather see agreement with the Arabs ... than the creation of a Jewish state” — 1938
In a speech to the National Labor Committee for Palestine in New York City. - Quotation from Sigmund Freud “I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state” — Feb. 26 1930
In response to a request for him to sign a petition condemning the Arab (Palestinian) riots of 1929 against Zionist colonization. - Quotation from Albert Einstein “Should the Jews not learn to live in peace .. , the struggle against them will follow” — Nov. 25 1929
In a letter to Chaim Weizmann, takes the opposite view of the objectives of real Zionism. - Quotation from George Curzon “A Jewish nation, a subordinate population of Arabs” — Jan. 26 1919
Foreign Secretary, in no way fooled by Zionist intentions, in an exchange of letters with Lord Balfour, whom he succeeded.