From Theodor Herzl's Diaries, July 6, 1895:
[Zionist Max] Nordau said, 'What is the tragedy of Jewry? That this
most conservative of peoples, which yearns to root itself in a soil,
has had no home for the last two thousand years."
We agreed so thoroughly on every point that I believed, since he had
the same ideas, he had arrived at my conclusion. "Anti-Semitism," he
said, "will compel the Jews to destroy among all peoples the idea of a
fatherland."
Or, I thought to myself, to create a fatherland of their own.
[Martin] Furth remarked, "It is not good for the Jews to foster
within themselves a strong nationalist feeling. It will merely lead to
worse persecution."
