Herut (the Hebrew name) was the successor of the Irgun terrorist movement that was responsible for the massacre at Deir Yassin.
As an independent political party, it never governed Israel. > Le 11 avr. 2024 à 17:26, Keith Sanborn via nettime-l > <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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] -- # 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]
