Word: zionism
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...extraordinary campaign, the Soviet Union for weeks has been attacking Israel and Zionism with newspaper articles, resolutions, petitions and mass meetings. Despite a tradition of Russian anti-Semitism dating from the days of the czars, Moscow insists that the drive is not directed at the country's loyal Jews but only at the Zionists -those who believe in a separate homeland in Palestine for all Jews. The cunning thing about the campaign is that Moscow has pressured Russia's Jews into conducting it themselves. A few Jews, however, have refused to go along with the official line. Last...
...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...
Eliav argues that of Zionism's three principal goals, only one has been attained-the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The other two, providing a refuge for all Jews who want or need one and creating a model society based on the Jewish heritage, have not been completely fulfilled. "Our achievements are many," he says, "but so too are our failures. There is a long way to go. The real danger, as I see it, is that the conflict with the Arabs may take us farther away from building the kind of Jewish society that we Zionists...
...sting before. Early in 1968, he was hounded out of his job at a Kiev radio factory because he had dared to defend Israel during a political lecture. When he applied for an exit visa to Israel, his non-Jewish wife was expelled from the Young Communist League for "Zionism" and disowned by her father, a KGB security police officer. Just before Kochubiyevsky was to get his emigration papers, he was arrested for "slanderous fabrications against the Soviet state...
...tight security surrounding Eshkol's state funeral. The Premier had wanted to be buried at Degania B, a kibbutz he helped to found near the Jordanian border. The Cabinet decided for security reasons to bury him instead on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, named for the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who is buried there. For the funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier...