The myth of Zionist imperialism
Jun. 17, 2009
eli kavon , THE JERUSALEM POST
Yehuda Alkalai is one of Jewish history's remarkable figures. Fifty years before Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Alkalai was agitating for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Alkalai, a rabbi who served the community in the capital of Serbia, was influenced by the events occurring around him. The Damascus Blood Libel in 1840 - the Muslim authorities framed, arrested and tortured the leaders of the Syrian Jewish community for ritually murdering a priest - convinced him that Jews needed a haven from anti-Semitism.
But there was another factor in Alkalai's Zionist quest that cannot be ignored: The Serbs were staging a national rebellion against their overlords, the Ottoman Empire. This fight against Islamic imperialism inspired him to ask why Jews were not engaged in a battle for their own national independence.
Delegates at the UN and professors on university campuses worldwide brand the State of Israel the creation of a racist and colonialist European imperialism. This libel of the Jewish state betrays an ignorance of the history of the Jews and the story of the Zionist movement. From the beginning, the Zionist movement has been a foe of imperialism. Rebellions of national independence against the Ottoman and Russian empires influenced precursors of the Zionist movement, such as Alkalai and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer. Moses Hess, a socialist, looked toward Garibaldi's Italy as his inspiration for a Jewish homeland in Israel.
17 jun 2009.
Јехуда Алкалај био је Земунски рабин, 50 година пре но ште ће се основати Ционистички покрет, Алкалај је тражио да се у Палестини оснује Јеврејска држава.
Рабин, који је служио у Београду, престоници Србије био је под утицајем догађаја око њега- Масакра јевреја у Дамаску 1840.
Али још један фактор у Алкалајевој Ционистичкој борби не треба занемарити:
Срби су подигли националну побуну против слојих тлачитеља, Отоманског царства. Та борба против Отомаанског империјализма ИНСПИРИСАЛА ГА ЈЕ У ЕОГОВОЈ БОРБИ ЗА ЈЕВРЕЈСКО НАЦИОНАЛНО ОСЛОБОЂЕЊЕ
