Einstein had a very weird for today Zionism going on. He essentially wanted Jewish mass immigration to Palestine but opposed a Jewish state being created.
His quote from 1938
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. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. ... If external necessity should after all compel us to assume this burden, let us bear it with tact and patience.
A decade later he was comparing the Israeli government to the nazi government. So zionist, yeah, but not the way you'd think when you hear zionist.
Einstein had a very weird for today Zionism going on. He essentially wanted Jewish mass immigration to Palestine but opposed a Jewish state being created.
His quote from 1938
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. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. ... If external necessity should after all compel us to assume this burden, let us bear it with tact and patience.
A decade later he was comparing the Israeli government to the nazi government. So zionist, yeah, but not the way you'd think when you hear zionist.