Summary
Israeli-Marxist historian (1949–) who argues a religious momentum was inherent in Zionism from the outset (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.23-24).
Details
- The idea of a Jewish state existed before its territory and before its population ‘objectively existed as such’ (2002: 37, PDF p.23).
- Religion is the only link between ‘the Baghdad merchant, the Polish carter, the German-Jewish Grunewald professor and the Yemeni cobbler’ (PDF p.23).
- Zionism introduced into national liberation an element ‘adverse to the concept of a civic nation’ (PDF p.24).