'Zionism - garb'
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CHIEF Rabbi Emmanuel Jacobowitz was once asked by a BBC interviewer whether there was any differezce between being anti-Israel and being antiSemitic. 'In theory that is possible, he replied, "in practice it isn't.' Earlier this year, a •Jewish shopper in Regent Street, no doubt impelled by the same view, insisted that police arrest Labour Committee on Palestine members who were picketing the Israeli state airlines in protest at the invasion of 'I want you to arrest these people, officer, for stirring up racial hatred. They are anti-Semites, he confidently asserted, un -daunted by the fact that the people he was pointing to said they were Jewish.
Tony Greenstein's pamphlet, 'Zionism, antiSemitism's twin in Jewish garb' is an attempt to give the lie to the equation made by - Jacobowitz; and to show, on the contrary, that early Zionists (particularly) collaborated regularly with anti-Semites.
Now people aren't convinced of the wrongheadedness of . Zionism today by having it pointed out to them that Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, negotiated with the notorious Russian anti-Semite von Plehve and with the Czarist minister, Count Witte, who openly boasted that If it were possible to drown six or seven million Jews in the Black Sea I would be perfectly happy to do so...
Obstacle
But the pamphlet also reveals that far from being a road to emancipation for Jews, Zionism has always constituted an obstacle to emancipatory movements.
The establishment of the state of Israel was not only the culmination of a colonial drive whose victims were the people of
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