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Arendt: “Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities.”<ref name=selzer1970>{{cite book |editor-last1=Selzer |editor-first1=Michael |author-last1=Arendt |author-first1=Hannah |chapter=Zionism Reconsidered |quote=Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities. |date=1970 |title=Zionism Reconsidered: The Rejection of Jewish Normalcy |publisher=Macmillan |page=241 |lccn=71-91031 |url=https://archive.org/details/zionismreconside0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up |access-date=2025-09-15}}</ref> |
Arendt: “Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities.”<ref name=selzer1970>{{cite book |editor-last1=Selzer |editor-first1=Michael |author-last1=Arendt |author-first1=Hannah |chapter=Zionism Reconsidered |quote=Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities. |date=1970 |title=Zionism Reconsidered: The Rejection of Jewish Normalcy |publisher=Macmillan |page=241 |lccn=71-91031 |url=https://archive.org/details/zionismreconside0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up |access-date=2025-09-15}}</ref> |
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Arendt: “Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities.”[1]
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According to the late Israeli geneticist and historian of science, Raphael Falk, “Zionists adopted the concept of Volk in terms of a nation-race as molded by the notion of Blood and Soil …”[2]: 5 Falk cites Israel’s national poet as an example:
A blunt, unfortunate example of the adherence of the Zionists to the nineteenth-century notion of Blood and Soil as ground for their territorial rights is the statement by the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik at a press conference at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the beginning of 1934: “I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of blood.”[2]: 5
Falk claims the only precedent for the Zionist effort to biologically sort humanity into Jew and non-Jew is the “Nazi efforts to diagnose the biological belonging of individuals to national-ethnic entities …”[2]: 6
Walter Laquer also identified Martin Buber “as an early protagonist of Blut und Boden …”[3]: 398 Hans Derks criticizes Laquer for downplaying Buber’s views and, quoting Laquer, those of other Zionist “advocates of the volkische idea”.[4]: 186 Laquer’s purpose, according to Derks, is “to avoid the painful nazism-zionism relationship.”[4]: 186
In his biography of Arthur Ruppin, Etan Bloom notes how the importation “of the Christian-European model of the Maccabeans” resulted in the establishment of the “Blut und Boden trope … in the emerging Modern Hebrew culture.”[5]: 116 Similarly, Hebrew poet Ya’akov Cahan is also cited as a propagator of Blood and Soil ideology in Zionist culture.[6]: 191
- ^ Arendt, Hannah (1970). “Zionism Reconsidered”. In Selzer, Michael (ed.). Zionism Reconsidered: The Rejection of Jewish Normalcy. Macmillan. p. 241. LCCN 71-91031. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
Only in its Zionist variant has such a crazy isolationism gone to the extreme of escape from Europe altogether. But its underlying national philosophy is far more general; indeed, it has been the ideology of most central European national movements. It is nothing else than the uncritical acceptance of German-inspired nationalism. This holds a nation to be an eternal organic body, the product of inevitable natural growth of inherent qualities; and it explains peoples, not in terms of political organizations, but in terms of biological superhuman personalities.
- ^ a b c Falk, Raphael (2017). Zionism and the Biology of Jews. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-57344-1.
- ^ Laquer, Walter (2003). A History of Zionism. Schocken.
- ^ a b Derks, Hans (2025). The Market and the Oikos, Vol. III: The Last Western Colony, 1918 – 1948. Brill.
- ^ Bloom, Etan (2011). Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture. Brill.
- ^ Biale, David (2007). Blood and Belief The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians. University of California Pr.
