Israel – It’s Founding
Updated 2024-02-25
2024-02-05 Many Jews and Jewish Organizations Recognized the Dangers of Zionism. They Were Right A November 1947 CIA memo noted, “many [American] Zionist organizations, while supporting the objectives of a National Home for Jews, do not advocate an independent Jewish nation in Palestine.” In a public letter, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and others stated that in the years up to statehood, Jewish terrorists “inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods, beatings, window-smashing, and widespread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.”
Commentary monthly magazine (then published by the AJC) reported in March 1948, “The terrorists defeated us,” British officers admit. “We couldn’t track them down. The Jewish population was too frightened of them to help us.” The AJC knew, from news reports and its on-scene correspondent in Palestine, of the militant fervor that was building for a Jewish state among the Zionist component.
Radical Zionist militias engaged in increasing violence against Arabs, British mandate administrators, and insufficiently-Zionist Jews in Palestine. Zionist terrorism spread to incidents like the 1944 assassination of British administrator Lord Moyne in Cairo, the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and attacks on Arab communities, markets and busses. The terrorism spread abroad to bombing of British facilities in Rome(1946) and Vienna and a British troop train(1947). https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jewish-organizations-against-zionism
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