Jack Ross, who is writing a book about anti-Zionist rabbis, writes re the post on Rabbi Eric Yoffie's religious nationalism:
While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you express, I feel
that once again you miss an important point. That is, the official
belief system of the Reform Union which you quote owes more to Moses Hess and G.W.F. Hegel
than to any authentically Judaic source. Yes, it is religion, but to
merely dismiss it as "religious craziness" does not do it justice.
that once again you miss an important point. That is, the official
belief system of the Reform Union which you quote owes more to Moses Hess and G.W.F. Hegel
than to any authentically Judaic source. Yes, it is religion, but to
merely dismiss it as "religious craziness" does not do it justice.
I find it an increasingly inescapable conclusion that was first proffered in the years leading up to statehood by Hans Kohn and Frank Chodorov
– Zionism and Naziism are fundamentally of the same genus: an attempt
to glorify a largely imagined nation-race by somehow resurrecting its
semi-mythological past in the form of a modern and expansionist
nation-state, which in both cases only led to mass murder.
