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The question of Bolshevism is outside the scope of this article, but it remains to be said that the European Jewish population of Palestine is already tainted with the tenets of that faith. The Jews of Southeastern Europe are, almost to a man, Bolsheviki. Europe and America cannot allow the possibility of a homogeneous Bolshevist state in Palestine, whence the propagandists would be in an excellent position to preach their doctrines throughout Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean coasts.
In fact, Zionism was a rival to Bolshevism, which was internationalist and centralized in Moscow. Nor were the Jews of Southeastern Europe particular Bolshevik. (In any case, few of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, were drawn from Southeastern Europe, making it a moot point.) The idea of a potential Israel as a beacon of Bolshevism, per se, is fatuous. Yes, many Zionist pionneers were socialists, especially those who created the kibbutz movement, but of a non- revolutionary, democratic strain....... |
