Bertrand Russell on Zionism [video]

Post by cies » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

immibis wrote: post #8

cies wrote: post #2

Israel has exceptionally great PR, especially with people in power. Palestinians have horrible PR (carrying dead bodies on the crowd's hands in tiny streets, is not something westeners relate to). In Europe a large part of a generation believes that the holocaust is the reason the state of Israel needs to be. Why is Israel not founded on a repurposed piece of Germany then?

Because Europe hates Jews. Israel's founding was the actual final solution the European Allied powers decided for the Jewish question - Hitler thought his would be final, but it was penultimate. Leaving the Jews in Europe would not be tolerated by any party to the war.

Post by r00fus » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

rramadass wrote: post #15

Bertrand Russell would have been better served if he had studied his own country's role in creating the Israel/Palestine problem. The British Empire laid the seeds of almost all the inter-country/inter-ethnicity/inter-religious/etc. conflicts plaguing the world today but they have conveniently washed their hands off of all of it. On the Palestine problem; Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 - https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Post by bdangubic » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC

rhujio2 wrote: post #34

rramadass wrote: post #15

Bertrand Russell would have been better served if he had studied his own country's role in creating the Israel/Palestine problem. The British Empire laid the seeds of almost all the inter-country/inter-ethnicity/inter-religious/etc. conflicts plaguing the world today but they have conveniently washed their hands off of all of it. On the Palestine problem; Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 - https://www.youtube.com/watch…

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Post by tim333 » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 10:01 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #2

Israel has exceptionally great PR, especially with people in power. Palestinians have horrible PR (carrying dead bodies on the crowd's hands in tiny streets, is not something westeners relate to). In Europe a large part of a generation believes that the holocaust is the reason the state of Israel needs to be. Why is Israel not founded on a repurposed piece of Germany then?

Post by throwaway290 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 11:46 AM UTC

baobun wrote: post #32

throwaway290 wrote: post #3

This doesn't need to be a link to some random dude's video because there's a perfectly fine Wikipedia article about Bertrand Russell and his views. He held a variety of views and I hope this particular dude doesn't intend to paint Russell as source of truth. > In 1929, he wrote that people deemed "mentally defective" and "feebleminded" should be sexually sterilised because they "are apt to have enormous numbers of il…

Why random Wikipedia rehash and not just link the actual damn letter that OP is reading out? https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5576-RussellMidE... http://www.russfound.org/RToP/RToP%20BRPF%20Message.htm BTW, this trend of sharing videos of some rando fluencer reading someone elses article aloud? Almost always they put their own (or worse...) bias into it, hurting the understanding of the naive viewer. You k…