Word: zionistic
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...days after they were condemned, Rudolf Slansky, Vladimir Clementis and nine other alleged Communist fomenters of "Zionist" and "Jewish nationalism" went to the gallows.* As dutifully as they had confessed to all manner of errors and evil, they had waived their right of appeal. They went to their deaths in the same grim Pankrac prison where they were tried...
Forgotten in the enthusiasm was the fact that Einstein, though sympathetic to Israel, had never been an ardent Zionist; he believed in a bi-nationalism that meant "friendly and fruitful coexistence with the Arabs." He does not even know Hebrew, official language of the new state...
Chaim Weizmann, the leader, died back in 1946, when he lost control of the world Zionist organization to the activists led by David Ben-Gurion. He had always opposed violence as a betrayal of the Jewish ethic, but Israel, perhaps necessarily, was born with war as the midwife. Weizmann was brushed aside and became a figurehead, enshrined, for past services, in a beautiful home in Rehovoth, surrounded by delicate Ming porcelains and modern French paintings...
Before the General Assembly's Special Political Committee, Arab delegates charged that "Zionist terrorism" had forced the refugees to flee their homes; the Israelis accused the Arab spokesman of being Nazi-minded. Then, everybody got down to talking figures. They settled finally on $23 million to sustain life in 880,000 people for one year-$5,000,000 more than last year, but $4,000,000 less than the Arabs asked...
...Textbooks. The Council's newest project is in the field of religious education. In a survey of Jewish religious schools in the U.S., the Council decided that Zionist ideas were being taught in most of them. Israeli national holidays, e.g., the Israeli Arbor Day, were celebrated as Jewish religious festivals. Of 114 religious textbooks studied by the Council, 73, the Council decided, were marred by "Jewish nationalism" in a more or less open form. When a mother came to the Council's Chicago chapter last summer complaining that she could not find a non-Zionist religious school...