In 1937, Britain's leader, Winston Churchill arrived at the same conclusion as Theodore Herzel:
For Jews to survive as a people, and to avoid antisemitism, they need to assimilate (while Herzel said they should just outright "convert".)
In a recently found article entitled, "How The Jews Can Combat Persecution", Churchill wrote about the Jews:
For Jews to survive as a people, and to avoid antisemitism, they need to assimilate (while Herzel said they should just outright "convert".)
In a recently found article entitled, "How The Jews Can Combat Persecution", Churchill wrote about the Jews:
"The central fact which dominates the relations of Jew and non-Jew is that the Jew is 'different'.
"He looks different. He thinks differently. He has a different tradition and background. He refuses to be absorbed."
Though, as Herzel, Churchill wasn't specifically "targeting Jews", and he also praised them as "sober, industrious, law-abiding" and urged Britons to stand up for the race against persecution.
So as anti-Israel sentiment and antisemitism continue to race across Europe today, is the solution to remove one's kippa, and hunker down in the trenches to disguise one's Judaism?
I don't blame Churchill -- he was thinking "pragmatically".
Moving to Israel and building a Jewish State was such a "crazy" idea, that he probably didn't think it was viable.
It's still not viable today.
Yet we continue to survive anyway.
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
