Oh how I would have loved to have been in your class. This was probably the best and most enlightening class those students had ever taken. Thank you for writing this.
This line was very interesting: "But Zionism argued that powerlessness corrupts no less. Zionist thinkers observed that a people whose very survival depended on the frequently absent goodwill of others would inevitably be corrupted by the need to ingratiate itself with those in power."
In a way, the antizionist argument that Israel is a colonial project relies on the narrative that the Zionists either collaborated with or "ingratiated" themselves with the imperial powers of the time (the British and the Ottomans, even the nazis with the ha'Avara Agreement) and that Israel continues to be backed by the US, the Big Satan, or basically the culmination of Western imperialist evil.
So the accusation has now become: “You claimed diaspora dependence corrupted Jews into proximity-seeking behavior, yet Zionism itself succeeded precisely through proximity to empire.”
Einat is one of our brightest and she was "read in" early. She knows the real point of Modern Israel.
so good so perfect
The term ‘bullying’ here is apt.
Fantastic article!
Oh how I would have loved to have been in your class. This was probably the best and most enlightening class those students had ever taken. Thank you for writing this.
Is Zionism as Therapy available in published book form? I would love to purchase a copy.
Stay tuned!
Just ordered 2! Looking forward to reading this and one will be given to a friend.
I have been following Einat Wilf for a couple of years and have !learned a great deal from her!
Clear thinker, great mind!
I recomment you and your knowledge to every anti-Zionist. Thank you Einat
Thry wont listen. But they might later https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/the-man-in-the-red-suit-by-tim-lieder?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=sllf3
Einat, thank you for your inspirational thinking!!!
This line was very interesting: "But Zionism argued that powerlessness corrupts no less. Zionist thinkers observed that a people whose very survival depended on the frequently absent goodwill of others would inevitably be corrupted by the need to ingratiate itself with those in power."
In a way, the antizionist argument that Israel is a colonial project relies on the narrative that the Zionists either collaborated with or "ingratiated" themselves with the imperial powers of the time (the British and the Ottomans, even the nazis with the ha'Avara Agreement) and that Israel continues to be backed by the US, the Big Satan, or basically the culmination of Western imperialist evil.
So the accusation has now become: “You claimed diaspora dependence corrupted Jews into proximity-seeking behavior, yet Zionism itself succeeded precisely through proximity to empire.”