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== Views on anti-Zionism == == Views on anti-Zionism ==

Revision as of 15:20, 4 April 2003

See: civil rights, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Nobel Peace Prize

Views on anti-Zionism

".. You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews - this is God's own truth. Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind....And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe....The anti-Semite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the anti-Semite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'! ...Let my words echo in the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews - make no mistake about it."


Although, the basic message of the above "quote" was indeed, without question, spoken by Martin Luther King, Jr. in a 1968 appearance at Harvard, where he said: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism." , Dr. King's purported "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," quoted above, appears to be a hoax, according to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. The CAMERA communique , while exposing the "letter" as a hoax nonetheless persuasively articulates that Dr. King strongly condemned anti-Semitism and unequivocally supported the right of the Jewish People to self-determination, the basic tenet of Zionism.

Additional Quotes

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

See also race, racism, racial segregation, discrimination

Reference

  • The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., David Garrow, Penguin Books: New York, New York, 1981. ISBN 0140064869

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