@GhostOnTheHalfShell it’s worse that that… going back to the roots of #Zionism (after Herzl essentially):

European Zionist colonization of #Palestine was built on explicit racial hierarchies and #eugenics. Arthur Ruppin (Zionism’s dirty little secret), director of the #Palestine Office and architect of Zionist settlement from 1908, promoted pseudoscientific race theories claiming original Jews were non-Semitic “Aryans” who had been corrupted by intermarriage with “inferior” Semitic peoples. Ruppin applied eugenic selection to all Jews - Eastern European, North African, Yemenite, and Ethiopian etc - “admitting” into the “Altneuland” only those deemed racially fit “human material” while rejecting those he classified as degenerate.

The colonization of Palestine was meant for him before the holocaust as a home for racially pure Jews. Sephardic Jews like Herzl were already too assimilated and impure. In fact his racial theories - developed through collaboration with #Nazi racial theorists and later were quoted in Nazi propaganda justifying the Nuremberg Laws - classified Herzl’s nose as “Assyrian-Bukharan” and categorized other Ashkenazi Jews with racialized classifications including “Ashkenazi-Negroid.” In Palestine this biological racism became institutionalized through settlement policies that systematically discriminated against Jews deemed racially inferior. He was the mentor of Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion, and if you know anything about Golda Meir, you’d know she wasn’t too far off from Rupin’s eugenicist swamp both in her views of Arabs and Muslims as well as Arab Jews. Zionism in this context is highly racialized.

Must add that all changed after the #Holocaust, when the Zionist movement found itself with six million fewer European Jews and turned to North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities to supply the labor and population needed for the colonization of Palestine.

See for example this and many more articles and book by Bloom and others
https://www.haaretz.com/2009-10-08/ty-article/the-makings-of-history-revisiting-arthur-ruppin/0000017f-dc90-db5a-a57f-dcfae53c0000

@MissConstrue

@GhostOnTheHalfShell it’s worse that that… going back to the roots of #Zionism (after Herzl essentially):

European Zionist colonization of #Palestine was built on explicit racial hierarchies and #eugenics. Arthur Ruppin (Zionism’s dirty little secret), director of the #Palestine Office and architect of Zionist settlement from 1908, promoted pseudoscientific race theories claiming original Jews were non-Semitic “Aryans” who had been corrupted by intermarriage with “inferior” Semitic peoples. Ruppin applied eugenic selection to all Jews - Eastern European, North African, Yemenite, and Ethiopian etc - “admitting” into the “Altneuland” only those deemed racially fit “human material” while rejecting those he classified as degenerate.

The colonization of Palestine was meant for him before the holocaust as a home for racially pure Jews. Sephardic Jews like Herzl were already too assimilated and impure. In fact his racial theories - developed through collaboration with #Nazi racial theorists and later were quoted in Nazi propaganda justifying the Nuremberg Laws - classified Herzl’s nose as “Assyrian-Bukharan” and categorized other Ashkenazi Jews with racialized classifications including “Ashkenazi-Negroid.” In Palestine this biological racism became institutionalized through settlement policies that systematically discriminated against Jews deemed racially inferior. He was the mentor of Zionist leaders like Ben Gurion, and if you know anything about Golda Meir, you’d know she wasn’t too far off from Rupin’s eugenicist swamp both in her views of Arabs and Muslims as well as Arab Jews. Zionism in this context is highly racialized.

Must add that all changed after the #Holocaust, when the Zionist movement found itself with six million fewer European Jews and turned to North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities to supply the labor and population needed for the colonization of Palestine.

See for example this and many more articles and book by Bloom and others
https://www.haaretz.com/2009-10-08/ty-article/the-makings-of-history-revisiting-arthur-ruppin/0000017f-dc90-db5a-a57f-dcfae53c0000

@MissConstrue