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Understanding the conflict
Historical critiques of Zionism/Isaeli government policy1. Yehudi Menuhin (1991)
2. Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt et al (1948)
3, The Jewish Answer
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
An fascinating account of Jewish opposition to Zionism before the establishment of Israel.
c.4,000 words
"David Alexander [president of the Board of Deputies 85 years ago] joined Claude Montefiore to publish a statement in the Times [just before the Balfour Declaration], seconded a few days later by several other Jewish notables. They deplored any suggestion that Jewish settlers in Palestine should be invested 'with certain rights in excess of those enjoyed by the rest of the population'. This could only ‘prove a veritable calamity for the Jewish people', for whom, wherever they lived, the principle of equal rights was vital. 'The establishment of a Jewish nationality in Palestine, founded in this theory of Jewish homelessness, must have the effect throughout the world of stamping the Jews as strangers in their native lands, and of undermining their hard-won position as citizens and nationals of those lands.'"
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