Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same meeting, the Council approved the constitutions of the Harvard Hellenic Society and the Harvard Zionist Organization and recommended to the Dean's Office that they be recognized as official undergraduate organizations...
...join the Communist Party. He got a job as correspondent for Moscow's Izvestia during the Spanish civil war, dutifully penned the Stalin line, but thought so little of it that, at the approach of World War II, he tried to get out of Europe by the Zionist route. Failing, he returned to Moscow by the Communist route and became one of Stalin's favorite thunderers. Throughout World War II he poured an unceasing flow of hate against the Nazis and then, at war's end, with no apparent effort, turned his rhetoric on "U.S. warmongers...
Educated by his well-to-do family in art and philosophy, he wandered through Europe after World War I, sopping up psychoanalysis in Vienna, writing movie scripts in Berlin, working as a special correspondent for the famed Frankfurter Zeitung. He visited Jerusalem, talked with the great Zionist pioneer, Chaim Weizmann. At last he began to find what he was looking for-but it was among the Arabs, not his fellow Jews, that he found it. In 1926 he became a Moslem...
...auto biography (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952), Koestler started chasing after his "arrow in the blue." He was pursuing "the absolute cause, the magic formula which would produce the Golden Age." In Europe of 1931, such sad Sagittarii were foredoomed to Communism: duly, at 26, the Hungarian ex-duelist, ex-Zionist and perpetual student joined the party that promised to heal all wounds, including inferiority complexes. The Invisible Writing tells the next stage of Koestler's intellectual vaga bondage, through the labyrinthine ways of Marxism, to safe harbor in London, where he will "live happily ever after, until the Great...
...Middle East, the massacre of the Arab village of Kibya took place (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), inflaming the area to its highest pitch since 1948. When he landed, the embittered Arab press greeted Johnston (who heads Hollywood's Motion Picture Association) by calling him the Zionist servant of a Jewish-controlled industry; the eight-nation Arab League rejected his scheme, sight unseen. Jordan said it would rather suffer economic disaster than cooperate "directly or indirectly" with the Israelis. Iraq sent word to Johnston not to bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited him). Only the Israelis were polite...