Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM
Michael -- Interesting historical quirk, from the NYT (4/21/1935):
JEWISH-ARAB AMITY URGED BY EINSTEIN
Professor Warns on Policy of
the Revisionist Group
Toward Palestine
Scientist Exalts Mosaic Code in
Criticizing 'Inner Enemies'
as Menace to Race
Professor Albert Einstein at a Passover celebration last night to the Manhattan Opera House, Eighth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, warned against supporting the activities of any Jewish political group whose acts were preventing friendly cooperation of Jews and Arabs In Palestine.
The warning was directed mainly against the Revisionists, one of the groups in the Zionist Organization.
"I am convinced that the Histadrut (the Jewish Federation of Labor) is the embodiment of the best energies working in this direction. It is the strongest bulwark against all tendencies to poison the life of the community. It forms the most effective check on revisionism, a movement which seeks to lead our youth astray with phrases borrowed from our worst enemies, and hinders the labor of most devoted pioneers."
"Under the gains of nationalist propaganda, Revisionism seeks to support the destructive speculation in land; it seeks to exploit the people and deprive them of their rights. Revisionism Is the modern embodiment of those harmful forces which Moses with foresight sought to banish when he formulated his model code of social law. Furthermore, the state of mind fed by revisionism is the most serious obstacle in the way of our peaceable and friendly cooperation with the Arab people, who are racially our kin."
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