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Title: Hidden History of Zionism
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| Hidden History of Zionism by Veritas Press Ltd. Zonism is Racism as aknowledged by the UN | A magnificent historical work.
Not like the pro-israeli propaganda books aout zionism, witch basicly change the genuine historical facts.
At least an objective book about this RACIST IDEOLOGY CALLED ZIONISM !
Zionism is racism as recognize by the UN !
Ralph Schoenman is offering us an objective work witch shows how the zionist ideology considers the jews as "superior" to all other mankind, to justify the use of state terrorism and racist crimes against the indigene population of Palestine.
This author deserves respect for having the courage to talk about historical facts witch the almighty proisraelian lobbies are desperetly trying to hide during decades.
The truth will always prevail, congratulation Ralph ! | | Hidden History of Zionism by Veritas Press Ltd. Right-wing irredentist propaganda | This very misleading book is simply racist propaganda, written in the style of many of the works seen in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material in this work is false. But the main problem is the use of that misinformation. The idea is to prove that Zionism has been some sort of arbitrary scheme to exploit, disperse, and dispossess a few Arabs and other non-Jews who happened to be living in a lightly-populated and run-down backwater of the Ottoman Empire around 100 years ago. That would enable a few million Jews to take command of thousands of square miles of resource-poor land, far less than land than an equal number of randomly chosen people on this planet could have just plain bought!
The whole thesis of the book is preposterous. It's basically a fascist taunt against those who support human rights.
The truth is that Zionism's purpose was to establish a refuge for Jews, centered on Jerusalem, which was the Jewish capital (and in the 1870s already had re-established a Jewish majority). And to make that refuge a place in which everyone, specifically including Jews, would be permitted to have human rights. Yes, there were some Arabs and other non-Jews in the region, but there was never a doubt that in a fair market in peacetime, Jews would outbid everyone else for most of the land in the Levant and proceed to dramatically increase the value of that land. And in fact, that's what happened. Jews paid high prices for land and made that land even more valuable than what they paid for it. Rather than dispersing or dispossessing Arabs, they attracted more Arabs to the regions where they lived and increased the overall prosperity of those who lived there. Without the aggression and wars by Arabs against the Jews, that trend would have been even more pronounced.
Schoenman displays a great deal of antagonism towards Zionism in this work, and his refusal to abide human rights for Levantine Jews renders some of his writing nearly incoherent. I do not recommend this book.
| | Hidden History of Zionism by Veritas Press Ltd. Mr. Schoenman and the Art of the Footnote |
Some fifty years ago I wrote my first scholarly article. When it was published I could hardly contain myself with pride and excitement.
I was extremely proud and presented everyone I knew with a copy.
In a few days a gentleman of my acquaintance sent me a very gracious note, essentially as follows: "Thank you for your brilliant article, entitled 'so-and-so.' I was enormously impressed. Your footnotes, twenty-seven in number, give evidence of great scholarship...." etc. etc. He made no comment at all about the substance of my article, nor did he show any sort of interest, then or at any time, in my research.
The lesson I learned, one I had to endure again and again since then, was this: a mere appearance of learning, the appurtenances, carry weight even with apparently intelligent and educated people. Moreover, both for those who present such appurtenances as if they were credentials, as well as for those who accept them as such, these -- the appurtenances -- can be convenient ways of evading the difficult intellectual tasks of scholarship. And they can also serve to obfuscate, as we shall see.
Mr. Ralph Schoenman became something of a footnote to history in the 1960s as a secretary to Bertrand Russell, who, alas, eventually repudiated him. The story, as well as some details of Mr. Schoenman's later life -- his pronounced litigiousness, for example -- are succinctly presented on the internet by Professor Kenneth A. Rahn, Sr., of the University of Rhode Island. Nor do I wish to dwell on the substance of Mr. Schoenman's ideas about Israel (as summarized by him on page 88 of his 1988 booklet "The Hidden History of Zionism"): "Even if the apartheid Israeli state were anchored on a ship off of [sic] Haifa, it would be an outrange." (Some other aspects of this booklet are discussed by CAMERA.) My purpose here is merely to look into what Mr. Schoenman can do with footnotes.
Mr. Schoenman's work "The Hidden History of Zionism" may be consulted on the internet. I will here look at his opening section, pp. one and two, comprising thirteen short paragraphs with a total of nine footnotes.
The first two paragraphs run as follows:
"'With anger, hatred, and sheer ferocity, thousands of youngsters hurled rocks at their Israeli occupiers, undaunted by the gunfire that greeted them. This was more than civil unrest. ...It was the beginning of a civil rebellion.' [l]
This is how Jerusalem Post correspondent Hirsh Goodman described the uprising of Palestinian youth in the West Bank and Gaza in mid-December 1987."
The first paragraph is presented as a sort of epigraph to the whole book and provides a footnote, numer 1, to authenticate the information. The second paragraph goes on to tell us that the information comes from Hirsh Goodman, who, Mr. Schoenman says, is a correspondent for the (Israeli) Jerusalem Post. Mr. Schoenman suggests that he has gone to the source, to Jerusalem or at least to a Jerusalem newspaper, and that he gives us the testimony of an eye witness in Israel. Moreover, Mr. Schoenman suggests that by quoting an Israeli, such testimony is "against interest" as the lawyers say, testimony that is therefore particularly creditable.
So there is first a testimony with footnote reference, and then a description of the witness who has furnished this testimony. Only the footnote does not check out. Readers who take the trouble to go to the end of the book and there consult footnote number 1 will find that it credits "Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 20, 1987." So it seems that instead of going to something like an original source, Mr. Schoenman has done no more than read a Californian telling us about an Israeli telling us about Palestinians.
Nevertheless, there is the footnote itself, which, by its very existence is proof, or is supposed to give proof, that Mr. Schoenman's work is "documented." How many readers will go to the trouble to check it out ?
Of the remaining eight footnotes in this section, seven refer the reader to American newpapers: four more to the Los Angeles Times, two to the New York Times, and one to the San Francisco Examiner. The remaining footnote, number 5, reads as follows: "First hand account to the author from the Dheisheh camp." There is no indication of who furnished this account, or the circumstances under which it was given, or how we could weigh the reliability, or lack thereof, of the information. Nor is there any indication of whether the American journalists he quotes were the only witnesses, nor whether what Mr. Schoenman says they say were the only things they did say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But still, there are these footnotes, each with a number, each waiting to be counted by readers looking for evidence of scholarship.
What is the function of such footnoting ? How does prose with such footnotes differ from prose without it ?
In most general terms, footnotes should enable the reader to judge for himself how an author knows what he says he knows. They should point to original sources. And they should point to information that is relevant to the author's propositions, but should also include information that would enable a reader to judge the relative merits of arguments on more than one side of a controversial issue.
When Mr. Schoenman credits articles he has read in the daily press of California and New York in 1987, at the time of the first intifada, this press contained much material that could support a variety of viewpoints on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. But Mr. Schoenman's citations are only to those hostile to Israel.
My old acquaintance, long gone by now, would have had reason to admire Mr. Schoenman's book. His footnotes, one hundred and eighty-eight in number, might well have led him to judge this book to be "meticulously documented." I am sure that is exactly what Mr. Schoenman's friends tell him.
| | Hidden History of Zionism by Veritas Press Ltd. Unraveling the colonization of Palestine | I have also read this book. and I found it very useful in unraveling the complicted history that surrounds the creation of Israel. There is also an author Norman Finkelstein who has discussed the creation of and mis-use of the term anti Semitism in one of his books "The Holocaust Industry" and in his most recent book "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History", and on numerous programs on a program call flashpoints found at the following website: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=9
It appears that anytime there is any criticism of Israel, one is automatically labeled an anti-Semite, and the books by Norman Finkelstein point this out. And they also verify to a great extent what Ralph Schoenman has written about in his book "The Hidden History of Zionism".
Although the host and others on the program ("Flashpoints" at www.kpfa.org ) are Jewish themselves, they have been labeled by the Zionist ideologues as anti-Semitic, and self-hating Jews.
As I have seen in some of the reviews about Ralph Schoenmans book, It appears that the defenders of the Zionist ideology, cannot discuss level-headedly what the facts are, with-out throwing out some sort of labels against those who disagree with them.
Ralph Schoenmans book " The Hidden History of Zionism" helps one understand the policies that are responsible for the on-going land theft and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, by the Israeli apartheid state.
I say bravo to Ralph Schoenman for having the courage to take on the mythology that surrounds the Zionist political movement in his book, and unravel the history that has created the great tragedy in Palestine.
| | Hidden History of Zionism by Veritas Press Ltd. Socialist unrealism | Schoenman proves once again that it is possible to create a fantasy world of monsters where none exists by shading the truth, clever inventions and repetition of polemics. Anyone who wants a good "hate Israel" book should definitely buy this one, but they should bear in mind that they are reading a work of fiction.
The "Hidden History" is not really hidden of course. The same charges have been leveled repeatedly by Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Ben Hecht and many others, and they have also been refuted. Some of them, such as allegations of Zionist "treachery" in the Holocaust were refuted in court. It is very hard to kill a lie unfortunately. |
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