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| …The history of the Jews is a history of creating religions and religious sects and their sectarians. Most notable, Christians, Muslims, Karaites, Samaritans, Essenes, Sadducees, Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist and even Yiddishists.
And historians of the future might eventually classify the Zionists as one of them and for sure one of the strangest Jewish movements in history. For one, it is surely the first that does not casually refer to non-Jews as goyim. For Israel’s Enlightened, it is even an ugly word for it sets the Jews apart, and being standoffish has been, the Enlightened think, one of the main reasons people hate us. I used to have an English friend, a very pleasant fellow, who said “The problem with you lot is you stick together.” No biological theorist of the racial inferiority of Jews, he had no objection to them blending into English. It was their persistent difference and community with one another that bothered him. He was not prepared to see that this is so for a couple of perfectly understandable reasons, such self-protection from goyim like him and his English people with a record of persecution and discrimination and irrational fantasies about us. Another reason is we like each other and share a world-view together. We are proud of Jewish accomplishments and are not embarrassed to remain Jews and live with other Jews… |
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