In the United States, the Stern Gang operated under the title of "American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel." Here is Einstein's response written the day after the massacre at Deir Yassin, the same day it was first reported in The New York Times. The original letter is slated to become part of the Deir Yassin Remembered Archives. Pay attention how he referred to them as a Nakba (catastrophe) upon Jews as early as April 10th, 1948
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Often Zionists like to paint Albert Einstein to be a Zionist like them; which cannot be further from the truth. Yes; it is true the Einstein called himself a "Zionist"; however he was a Zionists who was vehemently against the nation state concept as you'll see below. Like his close friends Judah Leon Magnes (founder of the Hebrew University) & Hannah Arendt (one of the top intellectuals in the 20th century who was publicly chewed and canceled for exposing the Kapo files during Eichmann's trial in the early 1960), their version of "Zionism" jived well with Palestinians demands: a bi-national state which as anti-Zionist as it gets! Here are sample of his letters, which we have quoted from EINSTEIN ON ISRAEL AND ZIONISM, p. 110-113
April 17, 1938
Address for the Third Seder, National Labor
Committee for Palestine, as Reported in The New York Times
3,000 HEAR EINSTEIN AT SEDER SERVICE
Against Palestine State
Division Might Give Rise to "Narrow Nationalism"
That Is Being Fought, He Holds
...While urging continued effort in the upbuilding of Palestine as a Jewish homeland, he expressed himself as op-Posed to the British proposal for a division of Palestine between Jews and Arabs and the creation of a separate Jewish State. He feared that the setting up of a political Jewish State in Palestine might lead to the development of a "narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against we have already to fight strongly even without a Jewish state."
April 29, 1938
Excerpt from "Our Debt to Zionism"
To be a Jew ... means first of all to acknowledge and follow in practice those fundamentals in humaneness laid down in the Bible....
We meet today because of our concern for the development of Palestine.... [O]ne thing, above all, must be emphasized: Judaism owes a great debt of gratitude to Zionism. The Zionist movement has revived among Jews the sense of community....
Now the fateful disease of our time--exaggerated nationalism, borne up by blind hatred--has brought our work in Palestine to a most difficult stage... [We must have] armed protection against fanatical Arab outlaws.
Everyone knows that the riots arc artificially fomented by those directly interested in embarrassing not only ourselves but especially England. Everyone that banditry would cease if foreign subsidies were withdrawn....
Just one more personal word on the question of partition:
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.... [T]hc essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and measure of temporal power.... I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain--especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even a Jewish state.... A return to a nation in the political sense of the word would be equivalent to turning away from the spiritualization of our community which we owe to the genius of our prophets. If external necessity should after all compel us to assume this burden, let us bear it with tact and patience.
April 21, 1938
Letter from F. I. Shatara, President of the Arab National League
My dear Professor Einstein:
Permit me to congratulate you for your address delivered on April 17th, at Seder Service, Hotel Astor, New York City. The warning that you have uttered against the dangers inherent in Political Zionism finds ample substantiation in the current unfortunate events in Palestine. At a time when most Jewish leaders seem to have yielded to emotional romanticism, it is refreshing to hear from a clear-headed leader and thinker who has the courage to tell the truth no matter how unpopular the truth may be.
It is my humble opinion that if Zionists will follow your advice, the historic friendship between the Jews and Arabs will be restored, peace will reign in Palestine, and the two cousin races can then collaborate towards the upbuilding of a Semitic civilization.
This is a great task, which requires a great leader like yourself. If you will lend your efforts and prestige towards solving the Palestine problem, you will have rendered a service to humanity which will rival your immortal service to science.
Very truly yours,
F. I. Shatara
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How criminals like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and Ariel Sharon could go on to become heads of state of a country that claims to be civilized is beyond my comprehension.
What happened here, and what is still going on today is nothing but ethnic cleansing. May the day of reconing come soon to the perpetrators of this crime!