Talk:Zionism/Archive 3

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:At the beginning of the 1970s, most opposition to and reservations concerning Zionism among Jews had disappeared. This change happened gradually, under the influence of several factors...Parallel to this, there was also a mutation in Arab as well as in Soviet anti-Zionism, but in the opposite direction. These forms of opposition to Zionism not only persisted, but, by contrast with the past, the defamation and the demonization of Zionism became prevalent. There was a notable shift from the previous rather "objective" opposition to and criticism of Zionism to its hysterical, paranoid and global denunciation.
:After 1948, the Arab hostility to Zionism deepened. From being categorized as a mere agent of "both Imperialism and Bolshevism," Zionism was raised to the status of an "imperialist conspiracy" against the unity of the Arab world, and charged with being racist. This emphasis on racism came to the fore especially in the Palestinian National Covenant, which states that Zionism is "racist and separationist in its structure and fascist in its objectives and means" (Art. 19 in the 1964 version). It aimed at enlisting the support of the Third World and at awakening a guilt complex in Western circles.(2) With Israel's success in surviving and overcoming the Arabs, the conspiracy pattern (to rule the world) became more and more prevalent, as illustrated by the repeated editions of Mein Kampf and of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and their frequent quotations.(3)
:Besides, Zionists and Jews were presented more and more not as adversaries or agents of enemies, but rather as the embodiment of evil, of a wickedness imputed to alleged basic characteristics of the Jews and of Judaism, to their ambition to rule the world because of the pretentious notion of the "chosen people."(4)
:A similar trend became noticeable in the Soviet Union. For a long time, Zionism was regarded there as a "chauvinist, bourgeois and reactionary" movement. It was in the beginning of the 1950s that Zionism was denounced as an international conspiracy against the Soviet regime. This was one of the major themes of the campaign against cosmopolitanism, and of the well-known trials of the 1950s. After the Six-Day War, and its humiliation of Soviet armaments, and subsequently the stimulation to the Jewish movement in the U.S.S.R., Zionism began to be demonized there from 1970 as a racist movement and an accomplice of the Nazis, the basic evil of which stemmed from the "theory of the chosen people."5
:2. Y. Harkabi, "Arab Positions on Zionism," in: S. Almog (ed.) Zionism and Arabs (1983).
:3. Institute of Jewish Affairs Staff, The Post War Career of the Protocols of Zion, Research Report, Dec. 1981. Y. Harkabi, op. cit.
:4. T. Mayer, Arab Anti-Zionism, its Development and Significance (1984); Harkabi, op. cit.; Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, "An Inquiry into Arab Textbooks," in: Asian and African Studies 8 (1972), 1–19.
:5. Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, its Roots and Consequences, proceedings of a seminar held in Jerusalem, April 7–8, 1978, The Hebrew University, Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry, 1979. See also Y. Manor, "L'Antisionisme," in: Revue FranLaise de Science Politique (1984).
:6. V. Zagladin and F. Ryzhenko (ed.), Sovpomennoe revolutzionnoe dvizhenie i natzionalism ("Contemporary Revolutionary Movement and Nationalism"), Izdatel'stvo Polititcheskoi Literatary, M. 1973, 205.
:: Some of the things said in reply address the question and are evidence against my suggestion.  But I'm not happy.  In my country (and probably yours) there are racists who carry on about the evils of "immigrants" when it is clear that they are really only concerned with non-white immigrants.  Does that mean that the article Immigration should get a footnote saying that "certain racists use immigrant as a euphemism for non-white immigrant?  It just would look pretty odd to me, though it might look ok in Racism. (Now I've had my word and I'll stop; I don't feel strongly about this at all.) --Zero 14:20, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism