Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Grimstad William
Title : AntiZion A survey of Commentary on Organized Jewry By Leading Personalities through the Ages
Year : 2003

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A Note to the Reader. I made this book because I had noticed a distinct tendency in communications and letters of recent decades to the lopsided flattery and glorification of our Zionist minority, which at the same time is quite belligerent about its intent to propagandize and conquer territory in its own behalf. As a part of this oddly unbalanced state of affairs, it has been painfully easy to see at work a process of reshaping biographical history so as to suggest, tacitly or avowedly, that practically every notable person - every generous and enlightened one, surely - was likewise an unquestioning partisan of Zionist-Jewish causes. Yet, my own knowledge of intellectual culture alerted me that it is quite impossible to impute such feelings to many if not most of the personalities whom hasty and misinformed pro-Zionist 'liberals' have drafted for their pantheon of allies. It is by way of balancing the issue and clarifying the record, therefore, that this material is offered now. The following points may help the reader in better understanding both the subject matter and the rationale of the present compilation: The quotations and synopses given here are not necessarily everything that a given person might have said or written on the Zionist-Jewish question. In the interest of concision I have limited myself in many cases to the most salient remarks and excerpts, or where this was not feasible, to paraphrase or descriptive summary. On the other hand, some persons I have quoted did express pro-Jewish sentiments in other contexts. I freely acknowledge this because it illustrates my main point, that there are at least two sides to all complex questions, and that controversial issues must be dispassionately adjudged on a point-counterpoint basis, rather than in a spirit of partisanship and prejudice. This book will, I hope, provide the long-missing voice for the dialogue. The objection may be raised, hackneyed as it is, that my selections are somehow invalid because they are all 'out of context.' This charge, should anyone raise it, leads me finally to what is admittedly a principal purpose in making up this little collection: to invite the general reader away from carefully tailored anthologies and back to the original works. There he will see for himself what the great minds of history actually thought on this eternally convulsive and compulsive Jewish-Zionist-imperialist question, rather than continuing trustingly to imbibe what academic careerists and other individuals of questionable integrity would dish out for him. William Grimstad. ...