{"id":242493,"date":"2016-05-09T19:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/once-most-jews-viewed-israel-as-the-anti-semites-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:33:01","slug":"once-most-jews-viewed-israel-as-the-anti-semites-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/once-most-jews-viewed-israel-as-the-anti-semites-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Once, Most Jews viewed Israel as the Anti-semite\u2019s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was an assessment no one expected from the deputy head of the Israeli military. In his Holocaust Day speech last week, Yair Golan compared current trends in Israel with Germany in the early 1930s, as Nazism took hold.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s Israel, he said, could be recognised \u201cthe revolting processes that occurred in Europe \u2026 There is nothing easier than hating the stranger, nothing easier than to stir fears and intimidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The furore over Golan\u2019s remarks followed on the heels of a similar outcry in Britain at statements by former London mayor Ken Livingstone. He observed that Hitler had in practice been \u201csupporting Zionism\u201d in 1933 when the Nazis signed a transfer agreement, allowing some German Jews to emigrate to Palestine.<\/p>\n

In their different ways both comments refer back to a heated argument among Jews that began a century or more ago about whether Zionism was a blessing or blight. Although largely overlooked today, the dispute throws much light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n

Those differences came to a head in 1917 when the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, a document promising for the first time to realise the Zionist goal of a \u201cnational home\u201d for the Jews in Palestine.<\/p>\n

Only one minister, Edwin Montagu, dissented. Notably, he was the only Jew in the British cabinet. The two facts were not unconnected. In a memo, he warned that his government\u2019s policy would be a \u201crallying ground for anti-Semites in every country\u201d.<\/p>\n

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It was an assessment no one expected from the deputy head of the Israeli military. In his Holocaust Day speech last week, Yair Golan compared current trends in Israel with Germany in the early 1930s, as Nazism took hold. In today\u2019s Israel, he said, could be recognised \u201cthe revolting processes that occurred in Europe \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}