Ruppin, Arthur (1876-1943)
- Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “I believe in the transfer of entire villages” — June 12 1938
Leading Zionist planner at a Jewish Agency executive meeting. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “Agreed with me that the Jews are not inferior but different” — Aug. 16 1933
Racist theorist of Zionism, writing in his diary. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “We are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivated the land” — May 30 1930
An important Zionist figure, creator of Brit Shalom, in favor of a bi-national state AND of a transfer of Palestinians to Syria,. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “It would of course be desirable if only "race Jews" came to Palestine” — 1919
In a book published in 1919, expresses a wish for "racial selection" among the Jews destined to colonize Palestine. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “Descendants of a mixed marriage… not any remarkable gifts” — 1913
Then director in Palestine of the colonization financed by the Zionist Organization, future director of the Jewish Agency, inspired by biological suprematism. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “An immigration en masse would lower the general cultural standard” — 1913
Then director in Palestine of the colonization financed by the Zionist Organization, future director of the Jewish Agency, expressing his hostility to non-Ashkenazi Jews. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “Ashkenazim are to-day superior ” — 1913
Then director in Palestine of the colonization financed by the Zionist Organization, future director of the Jewish Agency, theorizing a superiority of Jewish Ashkenazi. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “In respect of intellectual gifts the Jews can scarcely be surpassed ” — 1913
Then director in Palestine of the colonization financed by the Zionist Organization, future director of the Jewish Agency, expressing the racialist and racist ideas that he professed all his life.