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Israel Shahak Quotes

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

Israel Shahak
Contradiction, Term, Humane
"An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.

It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.

Israel Shahak
Israel, People, Important
"The Racist Nature of Zionism and of the Zionist State of Israel", the student newspaper of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Pi-Ha'aton, November 5, 1975.

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

Israel Shahak
Hate, Rights, Self
"Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss", the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, www.wrmea.org. June 1989.

I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.

Israel Shahak
Believe, Chauvinism
Israel Shahak (1994). “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, p.12, Pluto Press

We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.

Israel Shahak
Past, Wish, Realizing
"Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.

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