• Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      It's interesting because Einstein was a Zionist, in the sense of considering Palestine as a "natural" homeland for the Jewish people that would protect them from oppression. He supported unlimited Jewish immigration to Palestine, which is a...probelmatic but understandable take for a German Jew in the 1930s.

      He was deeply opposed to the creation of a Jewish State though, believing that Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others had an inherent right to live in peace and freedom in their collective holy land, especially those that already lived there. He openly called the founders of Israel the same as the Nazis for their massacres and ethnic cleansing.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        he was at one point offered the presidency of Israel as well but turned it down