Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Toynbee, in A Study of History, referred to the Jewish religion as a "fossil," and further nettled Jews by blaming the Old Testament's exclusivism for what he views as the evil intolerance of Christianity. In the current number of the journal Issues, published by the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, Historian Toynbee changes his tune-or at least transposes it to a different key. Judaism, he now says, is performing a pioneering role in the development of a religion for the Atomic...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
...satisfaction was not universally shared. Argentina-from whose soil Eichmann had been kidnaped by Israeli agents last month-seemed content to accept at face value Israel's pro forma denial that the kidnaping had ever happened. But in New York, Nahum Goldmann, prestigious president of the World Zionist Organization, was openly troubled by Israel's unilateral action and urged that Eichmann should stand trial for mass murder before an international court rather than an Israeli...
...letter to the Senate, pointing out the amendment's "harmful repercussions on U.S. interests in a wide area of the Middle East" and urging the Senate to scuttle it. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, damned the amendment as nothing more than a Zionist pressure group's meddling in U.S. foreign policy-a charge that was indignantly denied by New York's Kenneth Keating, a sponsor of the amendment, who protested that "our motives are pure." The Senate refused to drop the amendment, passed it, along with the entire foreign aid authorization...
...will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott of ships of the Zionist agents...