HOW ZIONISTS BUILT ISRAEL - WITH GREAT EMPHASIS ON THE 'RIGHT TYPE OF JEW'...

 

The Zionists who built Israel were very clear about what kind of 'human material' they wanted.....not any old common or garden Jew. Concentration camp victims were looked on as not up to standard.

'The Zionist movement believed that immigration ought to be limited to those with youth, capital or skills needed to build a state. Zionist immigration policy wasn’t about rescue, it was about social and racial engineering, domination of the local economy, cultural and ideological homogeneity, statebuilding, and, as we shall see, by the 1940s, immigration was about recruiting fighters....The Zionist movement measured the worth of Jews according to their marital status, age, health, physical abilities, profession and wealth. There were desirable Jews and undesirable ones, and the Zionist movement and then the State of Israel focused on keeping out the undesirables. Of course, the preferred traits varied over time, depending on whether the Zionist movement needed cash infusions, skilled professionals, headcount or fighters the most. But the nature of the human material available for Zionist co-optation was a constant obsession of the Zionist leadership. The refashioning of the Jewish mind, body and soul out of young, healthy, able-bodied farmers, professionals and fighters lay at the core of the DNA of the Zionist movement.





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