Summary
First chancellor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading member of Ihud, who argued with Martin Buber and Moses Smilansky for a binational Palestine; Chapter 7 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine spells his name “Judah” in its main text and “Judas” in the 1946 document’s credits, its notes and its bibliography, as printed (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.192, p.194, p.207-210).
Details
- Magnus argued that the Jewish people do not “need a Jewish state to maintain its very existence” and that the Jewish nation did not need to be conceptualized or guaranteed in territorial terms (PDF p.194).
- He rejected creating a Jewish state through violence, morally and politically, since it would have led to domination, if not expulsion, of one group by the other (PDF p.196, citing his “A Solution Through Force?”, 1947).
- His Like All Nations (1930) is cited at page 15 for the claim that a Jewish nation does not require a Jewish state (PDF p.207, n.7).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Ihud, Martin Buber, Moses Smilansky, Brit Shalom, Binationalism