Zionism as a solution to the "Jewish question"
- Quotation from Itamar Ben-Gvir “Encourage … the voluntary departure of Gaza’s residents. It’s ethical !” — May 14 2024
Fascist leader, promoter of forced colonialism, Minister of National Security in the Netanyahu VI government, at a meeting in Sderot. - 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 Avi Dichter “Prevent the slightest thought ...to transform Israel to a country of all its citizens” — Jul. 18 2018
Rapporteur of the Basic Law "Israel - Nation State of the Jewish People", explaining ingeniously that the purpose of this law is to make apartheid irreversible. - Quotation from Anastassia Michaeli “Judaism is at the basis of … this country to begin with. It's not just a religion” — Jul. 15 2009
Member of Parliament for Yisrael Beiteinu. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “It’s as if we were in Algeria” — Dec. 27 2001
Relating a phone call to French president Jacques Chirac, as related to journalist Alain Louyot in December 2001. - Quotation from Nathan Yalin-Mor “Our plans for large-scale immigration offered Germany ...to rid Europe of the Jews” — 1978
Former Lehi terrorist turned proponent of negotiations with the PLO, about Zionist contribution to the Nazi project on the Jews. - Quotation from John Bagot Glubb “Has the objective been to remove a nation from its country and to introduce another race” — 1967
British Commander of the Arab Legion from 1941 to 1956 serving British and Jordanian interests. - Quotation from Golda Meir “As a Socialist, I do not believe in God” — Jul. 24 1963
Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister of the "Jewish State", confided to Hannah Arendt that she was an atheist. A.H. points out that this quote is not verbatim. - Quotation from Hannah Arendt “Palestine, of all places, was swamped with all kinds of goods ‘made in Germany’” — 1963
Evoking, at the end of the Eichmann trial of 1961, the attitude of the Zionist leaders towards Nazism in the 1930s. - Quotation from Martin Buber “I have accepted … the state of Israel, the form of the Jewish community arisen from the war” — 1958
Zionist "leftist" philosopher, indicating the limits of his criticism of real Zionism. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel” — 1956
Conversation with Nahum Goldmann. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Hitler … caused damage to the Jewish state, whose coming he did not foresee” — 1954
Weighing, in retrospect, in his own way, the harm caused to the Jews by the genocide of the Jews of Europe. - Quotation from Unidentified / Non identifié “Plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as 'Bloody Jew', 'Jews go to Palestine'” — 1953
In an article in the 1953 Davar daily newspaper. - Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Their inhabitants are afraid and flee like mice” — Apr. 21 1948
At the same time as he participates in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the KKL/JNF leader cherishes the idea that the expellees will identify with the expellers. - Quotation from James Forrestal “The method ... to bring coercion and duress on other nations in the General Assembly bordered closely on scandal” — Feb. 3 1948
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), who committed suicide or was defenestrated on May 22, 1949, exposing to Roosevelt the means used to obtain the partition vote for Palestine on November 29, 1947. - 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 David Ben Gurion “If Palestine will not absorb them another territory will. Zionism is endangered” — Dec. 17 1938
Letter to the Zionist Executive expressing the fear that Palestine might not be the only solution to the rescue of European Jews. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Save … only half of them ... by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative” — Dec. 7 1938
One month after the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom, in a speech delivered in London (meeting of MAPAM leaders). - Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Solution of the Jewish question? It was our Zionist dream!” — Sep. 17 1937
An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations. - Quotation from Emil Ludwig “Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine” — Apr. 1936
Biographer of Jewish origin, known in the 1920s, now a Zionist, interviewed in the USA by a Zionist friend. - Quotation from Reinhardt Heydrich “The government is in complete agreement with the great spiritual movement … the so-called Zionism” — Sep. 26 1935
The infamous future "protector" of Bohemia, expressing his perfect agreement in principle with Zionism. - Quotation from Collectif “If the Jews had a state ... the Jewish question could already be considered solved” — Sep. 15 1935
In the introduction, published in 1939, to the so-called "Nuremberg" racist laws of 1935. - Quotation from Vicco Von Bülow-Schwante “Zionism does not contradict the National Socialist goal” — Sep. 1935
Head of the Sonderreferat Deutchland of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of "Jewish questions", he explains, in a letter to the minister of the Interior. - Quotation from Benito Mussolini “The person who really understands that is your fascist, Jabotinsky.” — Aug. 1935
In a meeting with David Prato, future Chief Rabbi of Rome, the fascist dictator Mussolini expressed his sympathy for the most "radical" Zionism. - Quotation from Vicco Bülow-Schwante “Zionism comes closest to the goals of German Jewish policy” — Feb. 28 1934
Head of the Sonderreferat Deutchland of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of "Jewish questions", he explains, in this circular to the diplomatic missions, the sympathy of the Nazi regime for the Zionist project. - Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Assimilation to be replaced by a ...declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and race” — 1934
An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations. - Quotation from Haim Nahman Bialik “I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of blood idea” — 1934
Poet celebrated by 220 place names in Israel, speaking in 1934 at a press conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. - 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 Joachim Prinz “Honest relationship of loyalty between a group-conscious Jewry and the German state” — June 21 1933
An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations. - 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 Winston Churchill “In harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire” — Feb. 8 1920
In this racialist, anti-Communist and anti-Semitic article, Winston Churchill, then British War Minister, endorses Balfour's commitment to the Zionist project in Palestine, in the name of "the interests of the British Empire". - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “The Four Great Powers ... are committed to Zionism” — Aug. 11 1919
In a private memorandum to the British Cabinet dated August 11, 1919, expresses that the great powers do not care about the Palestinians - 90% of the population at the time - and that with help, Zionism will help solve the "Jewish problem". - 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. - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “A Body … long regarded as alien ..., which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb” — Sep. 20 1918
Speaking of Zionism, he states unvarnished that in his eyes the Jews constitute an insoluble problem for "Western civilization. - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people” — Jul. 18 1917
Two weeks before his famous declaration, Lord Balfour wrote this preliminary draft in which his only purpose is to entrust Great Britain with the common objective of Christian and Jewish Zionists throughout Palestine. - Quotation from Pinhas Rosen “An institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin” — 1914
Became the first Minister of Justice of Israel, writing in 1914 that Palestine was (for Zionists) ... - Quotation from Max Nordau “This race cannot and must not merge with the others” — Dec. 21 1903
Max Nordau, a fervent supporter of "social Darwinism" who had become a co-founder of political Zionism with Theodor Herzl, explained to the French anti-Semitic leader Edouard Drumont his fundamental agreement with Drumont on the "racial" separation between Jews and non-Jews. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Help me to reach land [Palestine] sooner and the revolt will end” — Aug. 8 1903
In his discussions with the pogromist Vyacheslav Plehve, who doubted the Zionists' ability to attract the Jewish masses. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I have just come from Plehve … he will effectuate for us a charter for Palestine” — Aug. 1903
Talking about his meeting with the Russian pogromist Viatcheslav Plehve. According to the remarks reported by Herzl to Chaim Zhitlovsky, who rejected these conditions. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I propose capturing the Jewish communities as one of our next targets” — Aug. 28 1898
Speaking at the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel in 1998 to tackle the generally anti-Zionist Jewish (religious) communities. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Our movement … has everywhere to fight an embittered battle with the revolutionary parties” — Oct. 22 1897
Draft of Herzl's letter to the Kaiser of October 22, 1897. - Quotation from Friedrich von Hohenzollern “Let the Mauschels (Yids) go to Palestine” — Oct. 1897
Emperor of Germany, annotating a report on the first Zionist congress sent by ambassador Christan von Tattenbach. - Quotation from Edouard Drumont “The Jews make their happiness by making ours” — Aug. 30 1897
Drumont, leader of anti-Jewish propaganda from 1885 to 1910 in France, expresses his approval of Zionism, which assembled in Basel on August 29, 1897. - Quotation from Max Nordau “Zionism has nothing to do with theology” — Jul. 1897
Zionist leader very close to Theodor Herzl, in an article published in the Zionist newspaper Die Welt, aiming to completely dissociate Zionism from the Jewish religion. - Quotation from Edouard Drumont “The serious thinkers of Israel, in agreement with us on the essential points” — Jan. 16 1897
Drumont, the leader of anti-Jewish propaganda from 1885 to 1910 in France, warmly approved Theodor Herzl's book "The State of the Jews". - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Poor Jews, but also Christians who wanted to get rid of them, would subscribe” — Feb. 14 1896
Explaining that anti-Semites, in addition to the States, will contribute to the Jewish State by financing it. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “The Governments of all countries ...will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want” — Feb. 14 1896
Assuring that states will get rid of anti-Semitism by getting rid of Jews. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies” — June 12 1895
Explaining the usefulness of allying oneself with the anti-Semites to carry out the Zionist project. - Quotation from François-René de Chateaubriand “These legitimate masters of Judea ” — Apr. 20 1819
Chateaubriand, an ultraroyalist conservative writer and diplomat, gives alms to the Catholic myth of the exile to the Jews of Jerusalem, and hopes for a military adventure of the Holy Alliance. - Quotation from John Adams “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation” — Mar. 15 1819
Second President of the United States (from 1797 to 1801), in a letter to a Jewish traveler of the time, Mordechai Noah, wanted a "restoration" of the Jews in Judea with a view to their conversion.