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"You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms."
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Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak
author1970–1990
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Dr. Israel Shahak was a Polish-born Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate and activist on behalf of both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews). For twenty years, he headed the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights (1970–1990) and was a public critic of the policies of the
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"It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement."
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"That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans."
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"I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously."
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"Modern racism (of which antisemitism is part) although caused by specific social conditions, becomes, when it gains strength, a force that in my opinion can only be described as demonic."
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"We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others."
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