Ahad-Ha'am; Isaac Deutscher; Baruch Kimmerling; Victor Klemperer on Israel
Asher Ginzburg, Jewish thinker, wrote a remarkably prescient text, warning against the crude and racist stereotypes of Arabs circulating within Jewish communities in Europe. A Zionist fundamentalist myth that Palestine was a ‘land without people,’ designed for Jews was demolished. ‘We believe, abroad, that Palestine is entirely desolate, a desert without vegetation, and anyone can buy land there. This is not the case. There is no arable land that is not cultivated, only sandy