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The Shadow of the Star - An introduction to anti-Zionism
by Peter Edel
The Shadow of the Star analyzes the history of Zionism, from the origins to the present meaning of this nationalist movement. A century ago, Theodor Herzl’s essay The Jewish State started the Zionist movement. Herzl and other pioneering Zionists based their movement on a racial translation of the Judaic theme of God’s chosen people. It was the beginning of a terrible history of consequences in which the ends, a Greater Israel, justified the means in almost every way.
The option of a pure Jewish or by Jews dominated state in Arabic Israel, would inevitably lead to a situation of colonialism, finally resulting in a military conflict between the two ethnic groups. After the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948, Zionism held on to the theory of God’s chosen people and used it against the natives of Palestine. Zionist militia ousted large numbers of Palestinians to refugee camps.
In the 1960s, the Zionist movement used the holocaust as a centrepiece of their propaganda. After the trial against the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, the responsibility of the genocide was projected on the opponents of the Jewish state. From that day on, the Zionists have regarded every criticism of Israel equal to the crimes of the Nazis. The confrontation persisted.