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Prof. Yakov Rabkin reads the riot act to Zionism in Galway

category galway | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Monday December 11, 2006 03:33author by JD - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign Report this post to the editors

"The rapprochement activities of the Jews who reject Zionism tend to undercut the image of an intrinsically evil enemy and to show that one can talk with the other side"

Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, lecturer in contemporary Jewish history, Soviet history and the history of science at the University of Montreal since 1973 and practising Orthodox Jew, tonight laid bare the provenance of Zionism in Russia and voiced his opposition to it, full blown, in Israel

When Zionism, we were told, began to take root at the turn of the 20th century, most rabbinic authorities saw it as a dangerous tool to tear the Jews away from Torah and its commandments.
Prof. Yakov
Prof. Yakov

In the words of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchek quoted by Prof. Yakov in another forum : “The Zionists do not drive Jews away from the Torah in order to get a state they need a state to drive Jews away from the Torah. Prof. Yakov admitted that numerically, the Judaic opposition to Zionism may seem negligible, but that Jewish history shows that rigorous minorities tend to prevail in the end.

The Professor pointed out that many religious Jews abhor Zionism and its overwillingness to resort to violence and some demonstrated against Israel's recent invasion of Lebanon and that Neturei Karta members prayed at Yassar Arafat's bedside, toured the Hezbollah's territory in Lebanon and met with the current Iranian president and regularly demonstrate alongside Palestinians against the very existence of the Zionist state eliciting virulent Zionist criticism.

Professor Rabkin admitted that present day nuclear armed Israel seems monolithic and unassailable but things change for the better and the relatively peaceful attenuation of the power of the Soviet Union was used as an example, also Leonard Cohen's inspiring : "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

Prof. Yakov is off to Brussels tomorrow where an audience of 400 awaits him, to boot, his book has already been translated into six languages with "another few on the way." It seems this sweet gentle man is the light Cohen speaks of ?.

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The Prof. and Chairman of Galway IPSC, Richard Kimball
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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Well done IPSC     MichaelY    Mon Dec 11, 2006 13:17 
   The fugitive?     Dali Lama    Mon Dec 11, 2006 15:02 
   Professor Rabkin - undermining the legitimacy of Zionism     David L    Mon Dec 11, 2006 21:25 
   Is "socialist" synonymous with "universalistic"?     Coilín    Tue Dec 12, 2006 01:16 
   Zionism & Socialism     redjade    Tue Dec 12, 2006 01:27 
   Recognition of the State of Israel     reply to redjade    Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:11 
   Socialist Zionism - a dead parrot.     David L    Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:08 
   a dead parrot was once still a parrot     redjade    Tue Dec 12, 2006 13:38 
   reply to Redjade     David L    Tue Dec 12, 2006 16:53 
 10   Jews United Against Israel are the antidote to Olmert's "sick phenomenon"     JD    Tue Dec 12, 2006 20:03 
 11   Rabkin     Pinchas    Fri Dec 15, 2006 00:43 
 12   Great!     Renee    Fri Dec 15, 2006 02:14 
 13   Let us look for an inclusive future     Richard Kimball Galway    Fri Dec 15, 2006 22:47 
 14   Being Jewish and Being Zionist Is a Venn Diagram Overlap     F.D.Adam    Fri Feb 16, 2007 16:21 
 15   Irish intellectual silence     Fred Johnston    Sat Feb 17, 2007 14:19 
 16   Why is the White House not very happy about the Palestinian Agreement in Mecca?     MichaelY    Sat Feb 17, 2007 14:36 


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