Einstein on Israel and Zionism - New Enriched Edition - E-book - ePub

Albert Einstein said his "life is divided between equations and politics." Yet his views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades. Fred Jerome disproves the widely promoted story that Einstein was a "champion" of the State of Israel. A secular Jew, Einstein had mixed feelings about Zionism. Targeted by Germany's virulent antisemitism, he supported the goal of a Jewish "homeland" in Palestine-or elsewhere.
But he also demanded equal rights and equal power for Palestinian Arabs. He envisioned a nonreligious state, home to Jews and Palestinians alike. Drawing exhaustively from letters and statements, some of which had never before appeared in English, Fred Jerome presents and contextualizes Einstein's writings on Palestine from 1919 until his death in 1955. Had the warnings of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers been heeded, generations of death and destruction in Palestine might have been avoided. NEW TO THIS EDITION Fred Jerome reveals details of the 1948 Stern Gang assassination of the UN Security Council Peacemaker, Count Bernadotte. Fred Jerome (1939-2020) was a journalist, science writer, activist, and author of several books including The Einstein File, The FBI's Secret War on the World's Most Famous Scientist (Baraka Books, 2018) and Einstein on Race and Racism.
His investigative reports or op-ed pieces appeared in dozens of publications including Newsweek, The New York Times and The Link. As a reporter in the South during the early 1960s, he covered the explosive civil rights movement. He also taught at Columbia Journalism School, NYU and numerous other New York-area Universities. Reviews and Praise "Adds a new .