Israel Shahak quotes
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“You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.”
-- Israel ShahakSource : "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.
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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 ShahakSource : Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage
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“That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”
-- Israel ShahakSource : "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss", the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, www.wrmea.org. June 1989.
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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.”
-- Israel ShahakSource : "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.
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“I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.”
-- Israel ShahakSource : Israel Shahak (1994). “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years”, p.12, Pluto Press
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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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Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific
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“I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.”
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“You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.”
Source : "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.
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