But notice too, when you check it out, the use of the term Hebrew, as opposed to Jew, for that is how the post-religious Zionists regarded themselves: Hebrews, not Jews. They nicknamed Tel-Aviv the first Hebrew city, meaning Hebrew-speaking, and the first university they founded they called Hebrew University, not Jewish University, because the language of instruction would be Hebrew but also because in fact its faculty and student body were overwhelmingly non-observant, post-religious post-Jews, for that was the intellectual fashion of the age in the surrounding Gentile culture in Europe. It is no accident, no coincidence that in the 1870s the concept of antisemitism was all the rage among the chattering classes at the same time one of their leading philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche tore Christianity to shreds, as Tom Paine had in the 1790s; as Karl Marx had dismissed religion in the 1840s and 50s as the opiate of the masses…