Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders about Stalin's fanatical hatred of Jews in his last days, but so far no public mention had been made of the purge of Jewish intellectuals in the '30s, and the later postwar purge, coinciding with the establishment of Israel, and supposedly due to fear of Zionist influence in Russia and the satellite states...
There was less reticence in the satellite states, where the purge of Jewish Communists has been taken up by party newspapers, particularly in Poland. But the "Zionist conspiracy" still found a stout supporter in Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Viliam Siroky, who admitted last week that "certain manifestations of antiSemitism" had been wrongfully introduced into the trial of Rudolf Slansky and 13 other Czech Communist leaders in 1952. He added that there was a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, one of the "crimes" Slansky had been charged with and for which, said Siroky, he had been justly executed...
...Nasser's chief instrument of propaganda is the Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming...
...reporting a gift of $1,000,000 by the I.L.G.W.U. to build a new hospital in Beersheba, Israel, we were distressed to read [Jan. 2] that the city of Beersheba "has no hospital." It is my duty to report to you that Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has been maintaining a hospital in Beersheba since November 1949. It currently has 101 beds, and annually treats more than 5,000 patients, including a substantial percentage of Arabs...
Vienna-born Martin Buber, 77, lives in Jerusalem, where he taught philosophy at the Hebrew University from 1938 until his retirement five years ago. Long a prominent Zionist thinker, he is now at odds with the Israeli government, and the splinter group of which he is a leader (Ihud, meaning Union) is almost the only voice in Israel advocating cooperation with the Arabs. But Buber's main achievement lies in his tense, paradoxical, spiritual philosophy that has perhaps been as influential among Christian theologians, e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, as among Jews. A new book...