Rejection of Zionism by the Jews
- Quotation from Yaakov Sharett “Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country” — Jul. 19 2021
Yaakov Sharett served in the Palmach, the Haganah's elite unit before 1948, in the Jewish Brigade in 1944, co-founded a kibbutz in the Negev and operated in Israel's security and immigration services. A year before his death, he became an anti-Zionist, encouraging people to leave the country. - Quotation from Marek Edelman “Not to atone for the six million Jews murdered in Europe” — Apr. 12 2006
Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive". - Quotation from Marek Edelman “Kill twenty Arabs as long as one Jew stays alive” — Apr. 12 2006
Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive". - 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 Yehudi Menuhin “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword” — May 5 1991
Famous violinist and conductor. Excerpt from his speech at the Knesset for the reception of the Wolf Prize. - 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 Yaakov Sharett “The Jewish state ... is one of the most serious causes for this curse.” — Jul. 19 1921
A year before his death, the son of Israel's second president turned anti-Zionist deemed Israel to be the most serious cause of continuing anti-Semitism. - Quotation from Esther Frumkin “The Communist International must oppose this movement most vehemently” — Jul. 1920
Leader of the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party, speaking at the 2nd Congress of the 3rd International. - Quotation from Sholom Dovber Schneersohn “We must not heed them in their call to achieve redemption on our own” — 1899
Fifth spirituel leader of the religious Lubavitch dynasty, giving advice about the nationalist zionist movement. - Quotation from Collectif “We reaffirm that the object of Judaism is not political nor national, but spiritual” — Jul. 11 1897
Decision of the 8th Convention of American Rabbis, Montreal, July 6-11, 1997.