Leon Rosselson

Those who accuse the Green Party of antisemitism for passing a resolution that describes Zionism as racist seem unaware that Zionism itself is essentially an antisemitic ideology. Anyone who has been in a Zionist youth movement will have been taught that Jewish life in the diaspora (‘exile’ in Zionist terminology) is of no value and that only in a Jewish state can Jewish life thrive. In other words, Jews do not belong in the countries where they have lived over the centuries, which is what antisemites say. Zionism’s endgame is the negation of the diaspora, ( Shlilat ha Galut, in Hebrew).
All Zionism’s ideologues were antisemitic, from Jabotinsky on the right who despised those he called ‘cringing Yids’ to Ben Gurion on the left who hated Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazi Jews, and who called holocaust survivors ‘human debris’, to Herzl himself who banned Yiddish from his Judenstaat, whose first solution to antisemitism was a mass conversion of Vienna Jews to Catholicism and who described attendees at a soirée as “Some thirty or forty ugly little Jews and Jewesses. No consoling sight”.