Word: zionists
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Shortly before his death a month ago, Nachum Goldmann, the founder of the World Zionist Congress, the past president of the World Jewish Congress and a leading spokesperson for Jewish-Arab cooperation, joined other Jewish leaders in a moving call for Israeli and Palestinian reconciliation. There men knew well that when the Jewish people said "Never again" after the genocide of the Holocaust they meant not only that "Never again" would six million Jews (and, let us never forget, also six million Poles. Catholic priests, Russians, Ukranians, gypsies, and homosexuals) he systematically exterminated; but also that the Jewish people would...
...Begin's failure to appoint a full-scale commission of inquiry. So did Menachem Milson, the civil administrator of the West Bank who had been appointed by Sharon. And so did Yoav Gelber, a historian who had been serving on a commission to investigate the 1933 murder of a Zionist leader in Palestine. Said Gelber: "I feel it is impossible to investigate a murder that happened 49 years ago at a time when an investigation into the horrors of the present in Beirut is being refused...
With two senior Harvard administrators and about 15 Harvard policemen standing by to keep the peace, the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance and the Boston-based Lebanon-Palestine Crisis Coalition held rival demonstrations in front of Holyoke Center last night on the recent deaths in Lebanon...
Protesters from the Zionist Alliance said that they were distraught about the events in Lebanon, but that they objected to the coalition's persistence in using the events to challenge Israel's right to exist. In particular, alliance members expressed outrage at the protesters' constant comparison of Israel with the Nazis...
Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...