: Taken from page 16 - INSTAURATION Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, February 1997 : The Pied Piper of Zionism : ------------------------- : Chaim Weizmann's autobiography, "Trial and Error", is a revelatory book. The : first president of Israel, Weizmann was the infamous man more responsible : than any other for the famous Balfour Declaration and the eventual founding : of the Zionist state. "Trial and Error" is the story of the Zionist crusader : from his earliest days in Czarist Russia to his globe-girdling interviews : with the high and mighty. : Weizmann presents the usual philo-Semitic view of Jewish suffering in the : Pale of Settlement. Over and over he iterates, "Czarist persecution" as the : sufficient reason for the "return" of Jews to Palestine. At the same time, : he makes many astonishing concessions that undermine his arguments. For : instance, when recounting his conversations with William E. Gordon, sponsor : of the famous Aliens Bill, which restricted Jewish immigration into : turn-of-the-century England, he writes: : "Whenever the quantity of Jews in any country reacts against them . . . : .[It] cannot be looked upon as anti-Semitism in the ordinary or vulgar sense : of the word. It is a universal social and economic concomitant of Jewish : immigration and we cannot shake it off" [p. 90]. : From Russia Weizmann takes the reader to his student days in Geneva and then : to Berlin, the pre-WW I headquarters of Zionism. He recounts the little : known but crucially important issue of Jewish nationalism among the radical : Jewish university students. Zvi Abnerson, one of Weizmann's colleagues, : commented: : "[T]he Jewish Marxists. . .were "the usual bullying majority," intolerant of : the hunger for national freedom, the attachment to cultural traditions, : which others felt. Liberators of the world, they repressed with ridicule and : the weight of numbers those whom they called the minority, but who happened : to represent the actual majority of the Jewish people -- certainly in : Russia; and if they lacked the oppressive instruments of the Czar, they were : not less hostile than Czarism to the inner demands of minority : nationalities. And their doctrinaire brutality was all the more odious : because it was turned against their own people" [p. 65]. : Weizmann reveals repeatedly how the initial opposition to Zionism came from : wealthy assimilated Jews who feared that Jewish nationalism would taint Jews : with the charge of dual loyalty. It was Edwin Montagu, the Jewish Viceroy of : India, who spearheaded the opposition to the Balfour Declaration in England. : Leopold Rothschild, despite his relative Edmond de Rothschild's colonizing : work in Palestine, was equally opposed to Zionism. : Nevertheless, Zionism triumphed and Weizmann's autobiography shows in rich : detail precisely how. No one can read this book without realizing the : ubiquity of the Zionist international. Again and again Weizmann enters the : offices of top government leaders. He ascribes it all "to chance" and : fortunate encounters, but his flitting all over the globe and his vast : contacts give the lie to this assertion. Trial and Error is a victual Who's : Who of World Zionism. The book is worth reading just for its short vignettes : of the innumerable colleagues Weizmann worked with while realizing his : dream. Many of these names will be unfamiliar to the reader, but they tell : the "history behind the history" of our times. : Weizmann, a passionate advocate of his cause, carefully selects the facts he : wishes the reader to know. He treats the Balfour Declaration as a virtual : gift from a benevolent British government, only hinting at how the Zionists : themselves wrote it. He makes no mention of the Hussein-McMahon : correspondence of October 24, 1915, which predated the Balfour Declaration : by two years. Nor is there any mention of the momentous collaboration of : Zionism with Nazism in the 1930s. : Weizmann's account of the British handling of Palestinian problems and the : eventual British move away from the Balfour Declaration is essential : reading. His interpretation is self-pleading, but is nevertheless as : eloquent a statement of a fundamentally flawed case as may be found. Chaim : Weizmann was made first president of Israel and no doubt the honor was : deserved. 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