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This doesn't give enough context while he was critical of certain things and of the then weak right wing parties that were the predecessors of today's Israeli r
by rat87 10y ago
This doesn't give enough context while he was critical of certain things and of the then weak right wing parties that were the predecessors of today's Israeli right he was a big supporter of Israel especially as a fundraiser
He was on the board of deputies of Hebrew University and donated his papers to it
- wallace_f 10y agoYes that is true. I didn't say he disapproved of Israel. I think we're in agreement: as you said, he disapproved of the right-wing predecessors of modern-day Israel. He was very, very critical of them, and even compared them to Nazi Germany (his words). >a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. source: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork... Today it's not hard to find op-eds criticizing Einstein as being "wrong" on this.