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Einstein on Israel and Zionism
Albert Einstein said his “life is divided between equations and politics.” Yet his views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades. Einstein on Israel and Zionism corrects the widely accepted story that Einstein was a major supporter and “champion” of the State of Israel––a fabrication told and retold primarily in the mainstream media.
Einstein was a secular Jew, but he had mixed feelings about Zionism. Though he supported the goal of a Jewish “homeland” within Palestine, he never wavered from arguing forcefully for equal rights and equal power for the Arabs, whom he called “kinfolk” of the Jews. His nationalism had no room for aggressiveness or chauvinism. For him, the domination of Jew over Arab in Palestine, and the perpetuation of a state of mutual hostility between the two peoples, would mean the failure of Zionism.
Drawing exhaustively from letters and statements, some of which had never before appeared in English, Fred Jerome presents and contextualizes Einstein’s writings on Palestine from 1919 until his death in 1955.
Had the warnings of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers been heeded, generations of death and destruction in Palestine might have been avoided.
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Fred Jerome
Fred Jerome (1939-2020) was a journalist, science writer, activist, and author of several books including The Einstein File, The FBI’s Secret War on the World’s Most Famous Scientist (Baraka Books, 2018) and Einstein on Race and Racism. His investigative reports or op-ed pieces appeared in dozens of publications including Newsweek, The New York Times and The Link. As a reporter in the South during the early 1960s, he covered the explosive civil rights movement. He also taught at Columbia Journalism School, NYU and numerous other New York-area Universities.
