Hugh Naylor
@hughnaylor
This is the greatest book ever written about Israel’s relationship with the Holocaust. It’s long forgotten that Holocaust survivors were spat upon in Israel as lambs to the slaughter before the Eichmann trial. Also, the book adds to Avi Shlaim’s work on Zionism and how the ideology took on many incarnations before the Likud/Kahanist strands ultimately took control. Zionism, in short, was a diverse ideology with many differing interpretations. Not all were extremely nationalist. Not at all. This must be remembered and factored into discussions, especially given the origins of persecution in Europe. Just to add, before the 1940s, Muslim-majority polities were far more tolerant of Jews when compared to Europe
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FrameTheGlobe
@frametheglobe
The Jews willingly left Muslim controlled regions after the creation of the State of Israel. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the constitution of Medina shared a verse: “Whoever hurts a dhimmi (non-Muslim under Muslim protection) hurts me, and whoever hurts me has hurt Allah.” Dhimmi included Jews as well.
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Hugh Naylor
@hughnaylor
I mean they were driven out. Certainly there appears to be evidence of Zionists blowing up jewish centers like in Baghdad to create the same effect, but in general they were driven out of arab lands after 1948. Indisputable
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FrameTheGlobe
@frametheglobe
Nothing is indisputable, and in that era history was written by the victors, meaning the in-transition British empire and also the French in North Africa. The Zionists had to morally justify the creation of the State of Israel but more importantly, they had to increase the numbers to strengthen the state itself, specifically, something hardly talked about, the holocaust survivors weren’t interested in going to Israel.
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