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...still felt the need to talk seriously with this person who had labeled me, my family, and many of my friends as racists. "Tarek," I said, "I just want to talk to you more because these are important issues and I'm interested in promoting productive discourse about them...
...asked Tarek who had made that a Zionist objective. He named Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism. Now, I have read a lot of Herzl, and I just couldn't think of where he says such a thing. Herzl's main political tract, The Jewish State, is mostly about why Jews cannot remain in the Diaspora. Herzl discusses several possible sites for a Jewish state without even mentioning the subject of prior inhabitants, much less advocating their removal. (See, for example, pages 95-96 in the Dover edition...
Herzl also wrote a book called Altneuland, envisioning a utopian Zionist society--in which Jews and Arabs live as friends, side by side. I asked Tarek where Herzl wrote that non-Jews needed to be removed, but Tarek declined to say. "He did say it," Tarek insisted. "Go study more...
...have the right to define gay liberation. The Fly Club does not have the right to define feminism. And SAS does not have the right to define Zionism. Zionism is a movement for Jewish national liberation. And when it comes to defining exactly what Zionism is or will be, Tarek's favorite Zionist authority has this to say: "This is a private affair for Jews alone." (Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, page...
...TAREK COULD define Zionism for me, however, he couldn't tell me that Zionism is racism. Why not? Tarek says that decisions of the UN are "right," remember? Well, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly repealed the equation of Zionism with racism yesterday, by a vote of 111 to 25. According to Tarek, then, equating Zionism with racism is "not right." I'd love to hear him say so, or to explain why not if he's changed his mind...