Country Quote by Muhammad Asad

Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

— Yitzhak Shamir

“Zionism began as a European national movement but turned into a colonialist one once its leaders decided to implement their vision of national revival…

— Ilan Pappé

“Zionism is to the Jewish people what the liberation movements of Africa and Asia have been to their own people….”

— Phyllis Goldstein

During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself,…

— Louis D. Brandeis

As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to…

— Amira Hass

“Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence.”

— Ilan Pappé

“In Arab nations, many people opposed Zionism because they believed that the UN had no right to establish a Jewish state on what they…

— Phyllis Goldstein

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the abnormality of…

— Christopher Hitchens

On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting…

— Guy de Rothschild

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive…

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk