Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (AFFFI), condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community. “When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the terrorist organisations built up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.” Einstein — perhaps the most celebrated Jewish intellectual of the 20th century — refused … Continue reading If Einstein spoke out today, he would be accused of anti-Semitism