Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sharply criticized what he described as "hostility towards Sharia," the religious law that is part of the Islamic tradition, equating it with hostility towards Islam.
Okay, but no one was making that argument before Atatürk died. That’s not really what the Zionism movement was saying at the time. There was plenty of real antisemitism what with the whole Adolf Hitler thing…
Well, the Zionist movement and the plan to create a Jewish state in Palestine dates back another 50 years – a time when Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire, so if he was familiar with it I’m sure he had some opinion.
The movement was very different before Israel was a state. There were militant branches, but it was not an overall militant movement and the idea of the displacement, let alone the apartheid and eventual genocide of Palestinians was far from universal. And really, in the 1930s, the focus was more getting as many Jews out of Europe as possible.
Good find. Your Google skills are better than mine… or maybe I just gave up too soon.
I did find on Wikipedia, though, that the original Zionist plans were for a secular state with majority Jewish citizens, so yeah, definitely not what we have today.
Not really surprising since Moses Hess was a socialist Jew who inspired both Karl Marx’s ideas on communism and Theodore Herzl’s ideas on Zionism. Hess did become religious later in life, but when he was at his peak, he was inspired by the Jewish philosopher Spinoza (who was very close to an atheist) and Renaissance humanists. I have read that Herzl was an atheist too, but I’ve never tried to confirm it. I do know that, as you said, his vision of Israel was of a secular state and his impetus was mostly “Jews need to get the fuck out of Europe before we’re all killed.” And he was pretty much right, unfortunately.
Atatürk died 10 years before Israel became a state. So I’m guessing his stance would be “what are you talking about?”
You know what my point is, man. I’ve seen you make it yourself.
When someone conflates concerns with one aspect of a belief system with a vile hatred of all members of that culture, it’s an argument in bad faith.
Okay, but no one was making that argument before Atatürk died. That’s not really what the Zionism movement was saying at the time. There was plenty of real antisemitism what with the whole Adolf Hitler thing…
Well, the Zionist movement and the plan to create a Jewish state in Palestine dates back another 50 years – a time when Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire, so if he was familiar with it I’m sure he had some opinion.
The movement was very different before Israel was a state. There were militant branches, but it was not an overall militant movement and the idea of the displacement, let alone the apartheid and eventual genocide of Palestinians was far from universal. And really, in the 1930s, the focus was more getting as many Jews out of Europe as possible.
Good find. Your Google skills are better than mine… or maybe I just gave up too soon.
I did find on Wikipedia, though, that the original Zionist plans were for a secular state with majority Jewish citizens, so yeah, definitely not what we have today.
Not really surprising since Moses Hess was a socialist Jew who inspired both Karl Marx’s ideas on communism and Theodore Herzl’s ideas on Zionism. Hess did become religious later in life, but when he was at his peak, he was inspired by the Jewish philosopher Spinoza (who was very close to an atheist) and Renaissance humanists. I have read that Herzl was an atheist too, but I’ve never tried to confirm it. I do know that, as you said, his vision of Israel was of a secular state and his impetus was mostly “Jews need to get the fuck out of Europe before we’re all killed.” And he was pretty much right, unfortunately.