Quotations

• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Our movement has always stood for the socialist idea” — Aug. 7 1931
  Exalting his notion of a national workers' socialism, two years before National Socialism took power in Germany.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “I have no understanding of and no sympathy for the demand for a Jewish majority in Palestine” — Jul. 1931
  In an interview - given to the Jewish Telegraph Agency - that contributed to his elimination from the presidency of the Zionist Congress.
• 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 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 Chaim Weizmann “The sufferings which every backward race has gone through” — Jan. 17 1930
  In a letter to Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, Weizmann explained that democracy is irrelevant to the Palestinians, who were in the majority at the time, and that only property rights applied.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not recognize any form of absolute ownership over any country” — 1930
  Explaining in 1930 his "socialist" conception of the right to colonization in the form of a pro domo plea.
• Quotation from Moshe Beilinson “In Syria, in Iraq, in the Arabian Peninsula lies the homeland of the Arab people” — Dec. 4 1929
  Writer, journalist and spokesperson for Ben Gurion's Labour Party, writes.
• Quotation from Tawfiq Hammad “The Zionist policy is to dispose of the Arabs” — Nov. 29 1929
  Former Mayor of Nablus (1902-1906), in his testimony to the british Shaw-Simpson Commission of 1930.
• 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 Judah Magnes “A Jewish Home in Palestine built up on bayonets and oppression is not worth having” — Sep. 7 1929
  First President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in a letter to Chaim Weizmann.
• Quotation from Berl Katznelson “Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of conquest” — 1929
  Ally of Ben Gurion, one of the founding intellectuals of Zionism, following the 1929 riots.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Strengthening the Hagana, accelerating the [Zionist] enterprise and imposing Hebrew Labor” — 1929
  During a meeting of the Histadrout.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “The vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors” — 1929
  Future 2nd president of Israel, he sees in the Palestinians descendants of Jews converted to Islam.
• Quotation from Walter Shaw “The Arabs have come to see in Jewish immigration … a possible overlord of the future” — 1929
  1929 British Shaw Commission of Inquiry.
• Quotation from Hans Friedrich Karl Günther “A worthy and evident solution of the Jewish question lies in that separation” — 1927
  Influential propagandist of Nazi "racial science" in a 1927 book. Günther had a friendly meeting with the Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin in 1933.
• Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the Orient, thank God” — 1926
  Father of the revisionist movement, explaining (like most of the colonists of the time) that the Jews have nothing to do with the East.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Palestine is not Rhodesia and that 600,000 Arabs live there” — Aug. 1925
  In a speech without future at the 14th Zionist World Congress in Vienna, he said.
• Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “Zionism a colonizing adventure stands or falls on on the question of armed force” — 1925
  In the text "The Iron Law" of 1925.
• Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “No matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not” — Nov. 4 1923
  Leader of the so-called "revisionist" fascist movement, attacking any moral objection to Zionism.
• Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “An iron wall which the native population cannot breakthrough” — Nov. 4 1923
  Leader of the so-called "revisionist" fascist movement, dotting the i's and crossing the t's on how to move forward with the colonization of settlements.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We are conquerors of the land facing an iron wall” — Dec. 1922
  At the 3rd convention of Ahdut Ha'avoda in Haifa in December 1922.
• Quotation from George [Lord Sydenham] Clarke “We have … to start a running sore in the East,” — June 21 1922
  British soldier then colonial governor (1901-1913), elevated to Lord in 1913, wrote in 1922 in response to Lord Balfour about the Mandate over Palestine:.
• Quotation from World Zionist Organisation / Organisation sioniste mondiale “We owe it to ourselves to be cruel” — May 8 1922
  Expressing, in accordance with the central thesis of Zionism, what the Zionist policy from 1933 to 1945 would be about the anti-Semitic massacres in Europe.
• Quotation from Communist International “When...workers...create separate organizations for themselves...they participate in colonization” — 1922
  Newly created, erects a principle contrary to those of the KKL/JNF.
• Quotation from Kurt Blumenfeld “Under no circumstance does a Jew have the right to represent the affairs of another people” — 1922
  German Zionist leader, advising (Jewish) Minister Rathenau (assassinated by the Nazis in April 1922) in the early days of the Weimar Republic.
• Quotation from Martin Buber “Reject with abhorrence the methods of nationalistic domination” — Sep. 1 1921
  At the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), accepting all the beginnings of Zionism but recoiling from its consequences, he rejected with horror the methods of nationalist domination from which he himself had suffered.
• 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 Israel Zangwill “Be prepared either to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did” — 1921
  Active member of the first Zionist congresses, in an autobiography that explains the reason for his break with Zionism in 1904.
• Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “Such creations, or even the creation of the Bible alone, give us a perpetual right” — 1921
  Influential member of the Zionist labor movement, in a public letter.
• Quotation from JEWISH CHRONICLE “To know the habits and dispositions of the animals, and to be sure that the cages were secure” — 1921
  An organ of British Judaism, uses the zoological language of the colonizers when speaking of the Palestinians following the anti-Zionist riots in Jaffa in 1921, which resulted in deaths on both sides.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Samuel is our friend, and has worked loyally with us from the first moment” — 1921
  In front of an American audience, talking about the nomination of Herbert Samuel as British governor in Palestine.
• Quotation from Jacob Klatzkin “Whoever calls the foreign land his Fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people” — 1921
  Editor-in-chief from 1909 to 1911 of Die Welt , the official organ of German Zionism.
• Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “In working for Palestine, I would even ally myself with the devil” — 1921
  Leader of the fascist revisionist tendency, in response to the condemnations of his alliance with the Polish pogromist Petlioura.
• Quotation from Winston Churchill “British civil administration should have succeeded in such a short time in alienating the whole country” — Aug. 31 1920
  Speaking of the unpopularity of the "mandate" attributed to the Europeans by the League, in a letter (not sent) to Lloyd George.
• Quotation from Yaakov Meiersohn “In Palestine, there is no unsettled land at all” — Jul. 1920
  Leader of the communist tendency of Poale Zion, during its congress in Vienna.
• 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 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 Max Nordau “I suggested Helmstatte as a synonym for state” — 1920
  Co-organizer of the first Zionist congress in Basel, explaining that as early as 1897, the term Heimstatte (National Home) had been chosen rather than Judenstaat (Jewish State) in order to make it less frightening.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The issue known as the Arab problem in Palestine will be of merely local character” — 1920
  Speaking of an "Arab problem" in a letter to Lord Balfour.
• Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “We are a parasitic people. We have no roots in the soil, there is no ground beneath our feet” — 1920
  Zionist ideologue pronouncing (for other Jews) the return to the land, expressing his contempt for the Jewish diaspora.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs” — 1920
  Advocates peaceful methods of colonization at a time when Jews are only 10% of the population of Palestine.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work” — 1920
  Developing Zionist reasons for strictly separate development.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not” — 1920
  In a speech to non-Zionist Jews entitled "On the Beauty of the Jewish Revival", he said.
• Quotation from Abraham Yitzhak Kook “The difference between the Jewish soul and that of all the nations is greater” — 1920
  Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine (1919-1935), inspirer of today's religious Zionism, in his book Orot (Lights).
• Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “Better to die in the Exile than … if that land is considered the 'homeland' of the Arabs” — 1920
  “National" writer of Russian origin, commenting on the proposals to make Palestine a large federation (with the Palestinians).
• Quotation from Israel Zangwill “There is no Arab people … there is at best an Arab encampment” — 1920
  After having popularized Shaftesbury's formula on "the land without people", Zangwill, who never set foot in Palestine, participates in the alternative fairy tale, Palestinians are passing nomads.
• Quotation from Albert Einstein “This instinctive feeling of lack of kinship is referable to the law of the conservation of energy” — 1920
  Alas, showing his agreement - tinged with racialism - with a postulate of Zionism, the 'inevitability' of the separation of the Jews from the nations as a whole.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “That he would foist on the colonies the evil of mixed labour” — 1920
  President of the Histadrut (1921-28), polemicizing against Moshe Smilansky of the Farmers' Federation, who preferred Palestinian employment.
• Quotation from Israel Zangwill “And therefore we must generally persuade them to 'trek'” — 1920
  Having returned from the failure of his territorialist option, he found himself in the general racist current.
• Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “Our country ...has remained desolate, poorer than other civilized countries and empty” — 1920
  Zionist ideologue, taking up the colonialist discourse on the "Terra Nullius" to conquer.