A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 15)

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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 15)

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the idea of the Jewish National Home, and to fight the
call for assimilation. Instead of Judaism being merely
a religion, it should be inculcated as a racial doctrine ;
and instead of the call for assimilation the banner of
collective racism should be promulgated. Moses Hess ex-
plained this philosophy in his book, Rome And Jerusalem,
published in 1862, when he wrote that the « Jewish peo-
ple » survived because it had preserved its « racial in-
stinct.» In his book, Auto Emancipation, published in 1892,
Leo Pinsker stressed that the Jews have < a common,
unmixed descent, an indestructible vigor... » Theodor
Herzl in his book, The Jewish State, published in 1895,
wrote that the Jews have remained one people, and a dis-
tinct race, because the laws of marriage have been hinder-
ing « ... rather than aiding the fusion of races.... »
The prime enemy of Zionism and anti-semitism had
been the advocation for assimilating the Jews in the
nationalities of their respective countries, Thus, racism
was the essence and raison @’étre of Zionist philosophy.
It is a historical irony that the understanding of the Zion-
ist meaning of racism coincided with that of the Nazis.
Such a conceptual agreement led to the use of the same
methods, as exemplified by racial discrimination practical-
ly applied by Zionism against the Arabs before and after
the establishment of the state of Israel.
C. Zionism, since its inception, tended towards
stressing its superiority, which is a natural offspring of
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