Niklau

I am tired of hearing the officers say that we are ever closer to victory, and that the end of the war is in reach. Don’t they understand that we are rising up only to fall?”

Like the moon in Buddhism, a particle does not exist: it is the act of measuring that makes it a real object.

My first impression on hearing him lecture was that he had been transported to our planet from an alien civilization in some distant solar system in order to speed up our intellectual evolution,”

The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry,” in Unheroic Conduct—argue that not only was Zionism a response to antisemitism but, in some way, it also absorbed antisemitism.

In Scholem’s youth, Zionists were more openly radical, even revolutionary, in their belief that Zionism was the “transvaluation of all values,” the dismantling of Judaism itself.

The only direct, unadulterated consequence of nineteenth-century antisemitic movements was not Nazism but, on the contrary, Zionism, which … was a kind of counterideology, the ‘answer’ to antisemitism.”

Leo Strauss and Hasidic master Yoel Teitelbaum have therefore argued that Zionism (or at least political Zionism) is in some respect anti-Judaism (or at least anti-rabbinic Judaism).