Apparently you choose to ignore the letter Einstein and Arendt wrote to the New York Times comparing the tactics of the Liberty party to those of the Fascists.
> On Apr 11, 2024, at 11:20 AM, Joseph Rabie via nettime-l > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Letter from Albert Einstein to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, > June 13, 1947 : > > "Long before the emergence of Hitler I made the cause of Zionism mine because > through it I saw a means of correcting a flagrant wrong....The Jewish people > alone has for centuries been in the anomalous position of being victimized > and hounded as a people, though bereft of all the rights and protections > which even the smallest people normally has...Zionism offered the means of > ending this discrimination. Through the return to the land to which they were > bound by close historic ties...Jews sought to abolish their pariah status > among peoples... The advent of Hitler underscored with a savage logic all the > disastrous implications contained in the abnormal situation in which Jews > found themselves. Millions of Jews perished... because there was no spot on > the globe where they could find sanctuary...The Jewish survivors demand the > right to dwell amid brothers, on the ancient soil of their fathers.” — Letter > to Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, June 13, 1947 > > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein#:~:text=Einstein > was a prominent supporter,Jews the sense of community. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein#:~:text=Einstein%20was%20a%20prominent%20supporter,Jews%20the%20sense%20of%20community.>) > > - > > “(...) The attempts to use Arendt—uses that are always highly selective—to > support contemporary positions vis-à-vis Israel almost always get her wrong. > And yet to parse her views on Zionism is important. Most of the things she > cared (and worried) about—nationalism, sovereignty, resistance, > collaboration, freedom, justice, judgment—are entwined with her writings on > Zionism, the Shoah, and Israel. > > "Arendt wrestled with Zionism, and then with Israel, for over three decades: > with force and passion, respect and scorn. She wrote hundreds of thousands of > words, scores of articles and essays, and, most famously, the book Eichmann > in Jerusalem. She derided Jewish political sovereignty yet argued fervently > for a Jewish army and Jewish self-defense, the Jewish right to Palestine, and > the creation of a specifically Jewish politics and a specifically Jewish > world. (“A people can be a minority somewhere only if they are a majority > elsewhere,” she observed.) Arendt was a scathing opponent of assimilation and > an ardent admirer of Zionist accomplishments—economic, political, > intellectual, and social—in Palestine and, later, in Israel, though she also > expressed disgust at actually-existing Zionism. She opposed the partition of > Palestine and became a critic of Israel after the state was founded, though > she unambiguously supported Israel in the 1967 and 1973 wars. In short, her > attitudes toward Zionism oscillated: not only between months or years or > decades, but within them. These attitudes cannot be whittled down to “pro” or > “anti,” despite the efforts of reductionists to do so. (...)” > > (Susie Linfield, > https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/07/13/hannah-arendt-on-zionism/) > > - > > So Keith, kindly refrain from instrumentalising major Jewish figures by > attempting to shoehorn them into your antisemitic worldview. > > Which does not mean that Israel has not gone sorely astray. But only useful > critique, in the name of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, is of > any worth. > > Joe. > > > >> Le 10 avr. 2024 à 20:07, Keith Sanborn via nettime-l >> <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> This is a beautiful sentiment, but… >> >> Ask Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, this is not a shift in values, but >> the triumph of some of the worst values at the earliest formation of the >> Israeli nation state. Of course, there are other values of righteous >> compassion at the core, but like the US, there is a history of genocide and >> indifference to the indigenous and the other. > > > > > -- > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: https://www.nettime.org > # contact: [email protected] -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
