Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeland but in an early Diaspora?in "the strange land" of Egypt. History further demonstrates that after the Babylonian captivity, Judaism was never without a Diaspora, never without Jews?some of them important thinkers?in parts of the world other than Israel. Even some committed Zionists now concede that Zionism does not demand immigration to Israel...
...Greeting foreign visitors with what one American correspondent called the "cautious dignity of a tightrope walker," the Grand Rabbi presided over the decline of Iraq's Jewish community from an estimated 150,000 in 1947 to fewer than 3,000. Though Khadouri found it good politics to oppose Zionism, the Iraq government made life difficult for his people by executing or imprisoning many of them as "Israeli spies...
...began publishing books and pamphlets portraying Jews as vile drunks, rapists and drug pushers. In Love and Hate, Author Ivan Shevtsov has the Jewish villain kill his mother to gain his inheritance. The Soviet press also berates the Jews for their "God-chosen-ness" and argues that "Judaism and Zionism educate the Jews in the spirit of contempt and even hatred for other people...
...West German magazine Stern recently. "Peace would be the end of all our hopes. We shall sabotage any peace negotiations in the future." Nor would Habash mind, he said, if the Middle East crisis triggered World War III. "If this should be the only possibility to destroy Israel, Zionism and Arab reactionism, then we wish for it. The entire world except us has something to lose...
...campaign reached an unusual pitch in Moscow. At a government-sponsored press conference in Friendship House, a panel of prominent Jews appeared before foreign newsmen to explain an anti-Zionist statement that had been signed by 52 of them, including Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Their statement declared that Zionism "expressed the chauvinist views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie...