Introduction: the never-ending war against the Jews

Abstract

It has been one of Zionism’s foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated. Only by reinstating the Jewish people as an equal member of the comity of nations through reestablishment of its own independent state in the ancestral homeland would Jews be able to regain normalcy and respectability and to ameliorate, if not eliminate altogether, this long hatred. ‘Every single one of the nations in whose midst Jews live are shamefacedly or brazenly anti-Semitic’, wrote political Zionism’s founding father Theodor Herzl,