Promoting Anti-Semitism

Chaim Weizmann,
first Israeli president

Palestine cannot absorb the Jews of Europe. We want only the best of Jewish youth to come to us. We want only the educated, to enter Palestine for the purpose of increasing its culture. The other Jews will have to stay where they are and face whatever fate awaits them. These millions of Jews are dust on the wheels of history and may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine. We don’t what Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto.”

 

Theodor Herzl,
founder of the Zionist movement

An idea rose on my heart to bring on anti-Semitism and to obliterate Jewish wealth

Theodor Herzl,
founder of the Zionist movement

Antisemitism helps to build this kind of Jew, Education that will bring to assimilation.

Theodor Herzl,
founder of the Zionist movement

It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse. This will assist in realization of our plan…

Theodor Herzl,
founder of the Zionist movement

It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not wish to bring about the impoverishment of the countries that we leave. At first they must not be given large fees for this; otherwise we shall spoil our instruments and make them despicable as ‘stooges of the Jews.’ Later their fees will increase, and in the end we shall have only Gentile officials in the countries from which we have emigrated. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies. We want to emigrate as respected people.