A while back, Professor Shlomo Avineri reviewed a new translation into Hebrew of Theodor Herzl’s utopian novel Altneuland. Since “Zionism” means so many things to so many different people, it’s worth reading what the founder of the movement had to say, a vision far different than Jabotinsky’s:
“…it would be worthwhile to have Israeli high-school students encounter the image of Zionism as seen by its founders: a national and universal movement, which champions equal rights for Arabs as it implements the vision of a Jewish state; an enlightened movement that provides a place for religion in a Jewish society in the process of renewing itself; a realistic utopia, which does not ignore the flaws that emerge as the Zionist vision seeks to realize itself.”
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