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  • Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces. -- Geraldo Rivera
  • Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. -- Theodor Herzl
  • There is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the EVICTION of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. -- Ariel Sharon
  • Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel. -- Yigal Allon
  • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. -- Yitzhak Shamir
  • I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. -- A. B. Yehoshua
  • One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. -- Abba Eban
  • The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster. -- Walid Jumblatt
  • A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. -- Philip Roth
  • Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself. -- Abba Eban
  • One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. -- A. B. Yehoshua
  • "We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs" -- Judah Leon Magnes
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  • I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. -- Moshe Sharett
  • The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible! -- Yitzhak Navon
  • We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. -- Theodor Herzl
  • I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it. -- Ariel Sharon
  • It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. -- Ariel Sharon
  • The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people. -- Robert Faurisson
  • Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle. -- Rafael Eitan
  • We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else. -- Yasser Arafat
  • 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
  • Zionism, like other self-determination movements... -- Ruth Wisse
  • Zionism and pessimism are not compatible. -- Golda Meir
  • Nothing is more anti-semitic than Zionism -- Lowkey
  • Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history -- Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
  • You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms. -- Israel Shahak
  • The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible. -- Ali Khamenei
  • Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. -- Roger Garaudy
  • When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. -- David Novak
  • Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. -- Louis D. Brandeis
  • In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda. -- Ari Shavit
  • Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. -- Mike Leigh
  • And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism, -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism -- Ali Abunimah
  • Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head. -- Roseanne Barr
  • The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews. -- David Novak
  • The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today. -- Norman Finkelstein
  • Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization. -- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
  • My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin. -- Nahum Goldmann
  • Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant. -- Desmond Tutu
  • As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. -- Steven Spielberg
  • Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. -- Karen Armstrong
  • Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it must be made public and the web dismantled if global tyranny is to be avoided in the very near future. -- David Icke
  • The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism - they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria, and a danger for Iran at this point. -- David Duke
  • When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. -- Judith Butler
  • I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial. -- Muhammad Asad
  • Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own. -- George Mikes
  • Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time. -- David Icke
  • Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us. -- David Ben-Gurion
  • Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East, they are not only inciting hatred between Jews and Muslims but are also the greatest roadblock to lasting peace in the Middle East. -- Stephen Sizer
  • You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. -- Daniel Gordis
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