Tradition
Zionism
Overview
a movement to create and develop a Jewish state in the Levant
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It is by these tendencies and aspirations that the Jewish reconstruction in Palestine is informed. Zionism is not a movement inspired by chauvinism or by a _sacro egoismo_. I am convinced that the great majority of the Jews would refuse to support a movement of that kind. Nor does Zionism aspire to divest anyone in Palestine of any rights or possessions he may enjoy.
Albert Einstein, About Zionism
States what Zionism is; names Zionism several times.
Because the battle is long and arduous all general theory is gradually forgotten; in the end, nothing remains but self-assertion, and when the oppressed win freedom they are as oppressive as their former masters. This is seen most crudely in the case of what is called nationalism. Nationalism, in theory, is the doctrine that men, by their sympathies and traditions, form natural groups, called “nations,” each of…
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
States what Zionism is; the author is tied to Zionism in the knowledge graph.
And thus "setting free" comes to mean rather "chaining up." Compare, for example, what the self-interest of the state has done for Christianity. Christianity is one of the purest manifestations of the impulse towards culture and the production of the saint: but being used in countless ways to turn the mills of the state authorities, it gradually became sick at…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
The author is tied to Zionism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Zionism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gershom Scholem
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Judith Butler
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Slavoj Žižek
- Leo Strauss
- Noam Chomsky
- Walter Benjamin
- Martin Buber
- Jews
- Moses Hess
- Bertrand Russell
- Carl Jung
- Erich Fromm
- Hermann Cohen
- Michael Walzer
- Alexandre Kojève
- Emma Goldman
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Ismail al-Faruqi
- Yoram Hazony
- Émile Meyerson
- Moishe Postone
Related ideas
- Simon & Schuster
- Manchester University Press
- Jewish emancipation
- The Holocaust
- Antisemitism
- Yale University Press
- Washington, D.C.
- Fascism
- French Revolution
- BBC News
- Gershom Scholem
- Stanford University Press
- Princeton University Press
- History of the Jews in Germany
- Basic Books
- Hungary
- Hasidic Judaism
- Islamism
- Judaism
- Jerusalem
- Jewish eschatology
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Internet Archive
- Gentile
Place in the tradition
Part of Bertrand Russell.