Inconvenient Truths about 'Real Existing' Zionism

Abstract

The celebrations on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel brought forth mixed feelings for those of us who survived the Holocaust. The reason for this ambivalence is that, while the survivors of the Nazi genocide celebrated the creation of a Jewish state in 1948, few were aware at the time of the human costs and injustices that had been, were being, and would be perpetrated against Palestinian Arabs in our name. The slogan "Never Again," which was the dominating thought in the Jewish psyche in those years, was mostly concerned with the fate of European Jews.

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