Israel Shahak famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.
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It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.
-- Israel Shahak -
That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.
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We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.
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I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.
-- Israel Shahak
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.
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The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued
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The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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