movement. Our rich, who amongst other peoples would be the first to applaud the patriots —if only with kid gloved applause—hesitate; our Rabbis who, if they were the ministers of other creeds, would sing and shout the praises of the faithful, in and out of season, more often than not are responsible for the misconception of Zionism, twist the native patriotic thought into a lugubrious dissertation, and hurl, at times, what are after all puny anathemas at our heads.
This is, however, not to be set forth
as a grievance. Moses and Ezra suffered life denunciations, their tasks were rendered alike heavy by similar burdens, but they won—because at heart every people is patriotic; at heart, not one in ten thousand would be a traitor. But we are a people with a plenitude of words; and thus, by sheer cleverness of phrase, sophisticate ourselves.
Perhaps this little paper may do something towards clearing issues and creating an understanding of the fact that Zionism is the Jewish movement.