Citations

• Citation de Gueorgui Plekhanov “They are Zionists afraid of seasickness” — 1905
  Russian Marxist leader, about the Bundists, in an interview by Vladimir Jabotinsky.
• Citation de Vladimir Jabotinsky “To take the typical Yid of today and to imagine his diametrical opposite” — 1905
  In his tribute to Theodor Herzl.
• Citation de Vladimir Jabotinsky “A preservation of national integrity is impossible except by a preservation of racial purity” — juin 1904
  Founder of the "revisionist movement", ideological ancestor of the Israeli "right", tutelary figure of the Likud, celebrated in many streets and avenues in Israel. Writing in a Russian publication, he glorifies "ethnic" segregation and a racialist vision of humanity and the "Jewish people".
• Citation de Vladimir Jabotinsky “The sense of national specificity lays in the man’s “blood,” in his physical-racial type” — juin 1904
  Founder of the "revisionist movement", ideological ancestor of the Israeli "right", tutelary figure of the Likud, celebrated in many streets and avenues in Israel. Writing in a Russian publication, he glorifies "ethnic" segregation and a racialist vision of humanity and the "Jewish people".
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “With England as a starting point we may be sure that the Zionist idea will soar further” — 1904
  Shortly before his death, repeating that England is the key to Zionism.
• Citation de Max Nordau “This race cannot and must not merge with the others” — 21 déc. 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.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Help me to reach land [Palestine] sooner and the revolt will end” — 8 août 1903
  In his discussions with the pogromist Vyacheslav Plehve, who doubted the Zionists' ability to attract the Jewish masses.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I have just come from Plehve … he will effectuate for us a charter for Palestine” — août 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.
• Citation de Vladimir Ilitch Lenin “The idea that the Jews form a separate nation is reactionary politically” — 1903
  Expresses his absolute opposition to a premise of Zionism.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I saved them from an influx of East European Jews ” — 4 juil. 1902
  In London, speaking to Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, a non-Zionist, about the anti-Semitic Alien Bill, Herzl argued for Jewish emigration to the Middle East under British protection as a means of deflecting anti-Semitism.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I want you to… put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan” — 11 jan. 1902
  Expressing his admiration for the colonial adventurer Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, in a draft letter written in his diary.
• Citation de Israel Zangwill “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country” — déc. 1901
  Taking up the propaganda of the Christian Zionists (before becoming an opponent of the choice of Palestine for a Jewish national project).
• Citation de Edouard Drumont “I don't mind as long as that homeland is not mine” — 1900
  Founder of the newspaper La Libre Parole, antidreyfusard, nationalist and anti-Semitic, author of La France juive (The Jewish France , 1886), seeing a departure of Jews in Palestine in a positive light.
• Citation de Yusuf Ziya al-Khalidi “In the name of God, let Palestine be left alone” — 1er mar. 1899
  Mayor of Jerusalem, former Arab deputy in the Turkish parliament, after having taken note of the conclusions of the Basel congress, adjures Chief Rabbi of Paris Zadok Kahn in these terms.
• Citation de Yusuf Ziya al-Khalidi “I make no distinction between Jews, Christians and Muslims” — 1er mar. 1899
  Mayor of Jerusalem, in the letter to Chief Rabbi of Paris Zadok Kahn.
• Citation de 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.
• Citation de Davis Trietsch “You do not get ten million Jews into a land of 25,000 Km2” — 1899
  Zionist leader favouring the colonization of Cyprus and El-Arish, in a letter to Theodor Herzl.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Area: from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates” — 14 oct. 1898
  Endorsing the suggestion of his associate Max Bodenheimer, specifying for the limits of the State of the Jews.
• Citation de Max Nordau “The terrible devastation that eighteen centuries of Gahuth have wrought among us” — 28 août 1898
  Max Nordau, Theodor Herzl's “right-hand man,” took up the theory of Jewish degeneration outside Palestine. His call for “muscular Judaism” was also the Zionist movement's first public call for aggressive colonization.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I propose capturing the Jewish communities as one of our next targets” — 28 août 1898
  Speaking at the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel in 1998 to tackle the generally anti-Zionist Jewish (religious) communities.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “The first moment I entered the Movement my eyes were directed towards England” — 28 fév. 1898
  In a letter sent to his English friends before the creation of the English Zionist Federation.
• Citation de Nachman Syrkin “Zionism uproots religious Judaism in a stronger way than Reform or assimilation” — 1898
  One of the creators of the KKL/JNF, in his book The Jewish Problem and the Jewish Socialist State.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Our movement … has everywhere to fight an embittered battle with the revolutionary parties” — 22 oct. 1897
  Draft of Herzl's letter to the Kaiser of October 22, 1897.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Watch out, Yid. Zionism might proceed like William Tell” — 15 oct. 1897
  In his weekly magazine, Die Welt, attacks in violent and contemptuous - not to say racist - terms the anti-Zionist "Mauschel" (pejorative term, rendered in English by Yid), to which he opposes the Zionist Jew - such as himself -.
• Citation de 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.
• Citation de Friedrich von Hohenzollern “Laissez les Mauschels (youpins) aller en Palestine” — oct. 1897
  Empereur d’Allemagne, annotant un rapport sur le premier congrès sioniste envoyé par l’ambassadeur Christan von Tattenbach.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “At Basle I founded the Jewish State” — 3 sep. 1897
  At the end of the first Zionist Congress in Basel.
• Citation de Edouard Drumont “The Jews make their happiness by making ours” — 30 août 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.
• Citation de Max Nordau “More industrious and more able than the average European, not to speak of the inert Asiatic” — 29 août 1897
  Reactionary and elitist thinker, co-organizer of the first Zionist congress in Basel, in a typical racist discourse.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I am in command only of youths, beggars ans sensation mongers” — août 1897
  Giving in his diary his opinion on the delegates of the 1st Zionist congress that he convened.
• Citation de Collectif “We reaffirm that the object of Judaism is not political nor national, but spiritual” — 11 juil. 1897
  Decision of the 8th Convention of American Rabbis, Montreal, July 6-11, 1997.
• Citation de Max Nordau “Zionism has nothing to do with theology” — juil. 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.
• Citation de Edouard Drumont “The serious thinkers of Israel, in agreement with us on the essential points” — 16 jan. 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".
• Citation de Max Nordau “But there are Arabs in Palestine! I didn’t know that” — 1897
  Reactionary and elitist thinker, organizer of the first Zionist Congresses, addressing Theodor Herzl.
• Citation de John Lawson Stoddard “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united” — 1897
  American traveler and popular writer, Christian Zionist, author after Lord Shaftesbury, of the formula "a land without people for a people without land".
• Citation de Auteur inconnu “To this plague-ridden, blighted corner of the Orient” — 26 avr. 1896
  In a letter to Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden, Herzl qualifies a country where he had never been.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Door which I am trying to push open for the poor masses of Jews” — 18 fév. 1896
  In a letter to the Prime Minister of Austria, Kazimierz Badeni, Herzl insisted that his project was to divert poor Jews from Christian countries.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “A wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism” — 14 fév. 1896
  In his book The Jewish State.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “The unfortunate Jews are now carrying the seeds of Anti-Semitism into England” — 14 fév. 1896
  Developing the thesis, taken up by all Zionists, of an inevitable anti-Semitism due to the Jews of Eastern Europe.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “The Governments of all countries ...will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want” — 14 fév. 1896
  Assuring that states will get rid of anti-Semitism by getting rid of Jews.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Immigration is consequently futile unless we have the sovereign right to continue” — 14 fév. 1896
  Establishing the principle that there is no Jewish state without a guarantee of a colonial power.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Poor Jews, but also Christians who wanted to get rid of them, would subscribe” — 14 fév. 1896
  Explaining that anti-Semites, in addition to the States, will contribute to the Jewish State by financing it.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely” — 12 juin 1895
  Herzl imagines the aftermath of the attribution of Palestine (by a great power) to the Zionist movement that he has not yet created...
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies” — 12 juin 1895
  Explaining the usefulness of allying oneself with the anti-Semites to carry out the Zionist project.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism” — 2 juin 1895
  On the first day of his diary.
• Citation de Theodor Herzl “Anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow - and so do I ” — 2 juin 1895
  On the first day of his diary.
• Citation de Mark Twain “It’s our duty to take it away from them” — 1894
  A year before Theodor Herzl's book "The State of the Jews", Mark Twain published a sequel to the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, in which only "paynim" (pagans) existed in the Holy Land, a land which Jews and Christians had to take over.
• Citation de William Eugene Blackstone “According to God’s distribution of nations” — mar. 1891
  American evangelist, author of « Jesus is Coming », organizer in 1890 of the "Conference on the Past, Present, and Future of Israel" in Chicago, from which emerged the "Blackstone Memorial" signed by hundreds of personalities, which was presented to Secretary of State James Blaine on May 5, 1891.
• Citation de Asher Ginsberg “They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty” — 1891
  In his book The Truth from Palestine (renamed A truth from the Land of Israel in 1953), commenting on his first visit to Palestine in 1891.
• Citation de Moshe Smilansky “It is very simple. We'll harass them until they get out” — 1891
  Member of the first wave of colonization in Palestine, reporting a dialogue between two settlers of the "Lovers of Zion" (Hovevie Tzion) in 1891.