Thread by @Spinozasrose

Anyone who defends diaspora as some kind of good existence for Jews must be forced to explain how the Holocaust, the Farhuds, the Russian pogroms, the Dreyfus and Damascus libels, European "scientific" antisemitism, etc etc, fit into this concept. /1

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What this antiZionist polemic attempts to do is acknowledge that Zionism was largely a failure in Europe and we know it by looking at the 6M exterminated Jews. Ben Gurion, in 1957, wrote:
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This antiZionist polemic brazenly tries to persuade us that 6M dead Jews in Europe was better for the perpetuation of the Jewish people than the 600K Jews in 1948 who founded the Jewish state.
Now go back read the article with that in mind. Deny it if you dare.
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Addendum: Spinoza, in his Theologico-Political Treatise recognized that Jews are a people, a nation, and that Judaism doesn't make sense in the diaspora, so strong are its cords to the ancestral homeland. Therefore,

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