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World Zionist Organization

World Zionist Organization

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Sep 15, 2026

Ian LustickGUEST
22:31
It doesn't.
Ian LustickGUEST
22:32
Even the world's, uh, uh, agencies, the World Zionist Organization, reject, uh, used what is now, uh, the, the Jerusalem, uh, declaration, uh, uh, declar- uh, definition, which is just as antisemitism is prejudice, hostility, or discrimination against Jews as Jews.
Ian LustickGUEST
22:48
That was the traditional definition.
Ian LustickGUEST
22:50
It was abandoned when the Israel lobby and Israel Hasbara propaganda decided they could no longer defend Israeli policies in front of American or world audiences.
Francine KlagsbrunGUEST
5:10
And under her leadership, Hadassah grew very quickly from just a few chapters to many chapters to becoming the most powerful and important Zionist organiz- women's Zionist organiz- well, any Zionist organization in America, but really one of the most important women's organizations, Jewish or not, in the United States.
Francine KlagsbrunGUEST
5:32
They took as their mission creating healthcare for the people in the land of Israel, and then under the Zion, the World Zionist Organization, she became, uh, the head of their education department and revolutionized education in the land of Israel, and it became a really good system that she was in charge of.
Francine KlagsbrunGUEST
5:54
Uh, in the what was called the Vaad Leumi, the National Council, she was in charge of all their social work, social work department.
Francine KlagsbrunGUEST
6:02
She started a social work department.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
30:12
As these pages progress, and the history of the 38th Jewish Battalion is unfolded before the eyes of the reader, it will be seen that my expectations were more than realized, for the battalion drilled, marched, fought, and generally played the game as well as any battalion in the army.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
30:30
It is a curious fact that, so far as I could gather, the Inner Actions Committee of the Zionist Organization, with the honored exception of Dr. Weizmann, looked upon us with suspicion.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
30:41
The formation of Jewish battalions did not appeal to them.
Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR
30:45
How it was possible that the leaders of Zionism should not have grasped and taken to their hearts this gift of Jewish battalions from the British government for the furtherance of their own ends is one of the greatest examples of ineptitude that have ever come within my experience.

3 HRS 56 MINS LATER

Jeremiah SutherlandNARRATOR
267:02
I felt so strongly on this question and so clearly foresaw the inevitable end that having failed to move the authorities myself, I cast about me to see where I could look for help and sympathy in the difficult situation in which I was placed.
Jeremiah SutherlandNARRATOR
267:16
The only possible man who might be able to do something was the acting chairman of the Zionist Commission then in Palestine.
Jeremiah SutherlandNARRATOR
267:23
It will be remembered that, soon after the famous Balfour Declaration, Dr. Weizmann, the president of the Zionist Organization, was sent out at the head of a commission to investigate conditions and safeguard Jewish interests in Palestine.
Jeremiah SutherlandNARRATOR
267:36
Dr. Weizmann was received by His Majesty the King before his departure from England and came out armed with strong letters from the Prime Minister and Mr. Balfour to General Allenby.
Noa LeviHOST
2:27
raising concerns about the impact on vulnerable populations and critical medical infrastructure in germany the far-right alternative for germany or afdi party has secured a victory in saxony anhalt's regional election raising concerns within germany's jewish community and among experts regarding the future of Holocaust remembrance and potential cooperation with the party.
Noa LeviHOST
2:49
Elsewhere, Yaakov Hagel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization, predicts demographic shifts could soon make Israel home to the majority of the global Jewish population, attributing this to a renewed search for Jewish identity among young diaspora Jews following the October 7th attacks.
Noa LeviHOST
3:07
Domestically, Israel's High Court of Justice has voided three senior appointments to the Second Authority Council, citing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's violation of his conflict of interest agreement and flaws in the vetting process.
Noa LeviHOST
3:20
In polling news, a Mariv poll suggests the opposition bloc could gain a Knesset majority if certain joint slates join.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
13:01
It was built in 1849 by the first Anglican bishop in Palestine, who, interestingly enough, was a German-born Jew.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
13:10
Thanks to my dad working there, and with the help of a Christian Zionist organization back in Sweden, I received a full scholarship to an international school.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
13:19
This was no regular international school.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
13:21
It was, in fact, also built by the Anglicans as part of their church's ministry among Jewish people, CMJ, in 1847.

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Veronica ShermanGUEST
19:02
Herzl was born in Hungary in 1860.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
19:05
He's considered the father of Zionism.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
19:07
He formed the Zionist Organization, which is now called the World Zionist Organization.
Veronica ShermanGUEST
19:13
It's important to know that Herzl was a staunch atheist.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
13:53
It's, by the way, partially in effect today.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
13:57
The Jewish agency has to send teachers and rabbis across the world.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
14:04
For three years, each rabbi, each teacher goes three years away.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
14:09
you're not at the mercy of the congregation, you're sent by the Jewish agency, the World Zionist Organization, they pay your salary, and you can be a Rav.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
14:23
And then if you inspire some to come and alihah, they'll know someone here, there's a rabbi here they know.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
14:31
So I differ, I differ.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
11:11
The Israel lobby of the U.S. is just the tip of an older and far larger iceberg known as political Zionism, an international movement that began in the late 1800s with the goal of creating a Jewish state somewhere in the world.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
11:25
In 1897, this movement, led by a European, quote-unquote, European journalist named Theodor Herzl, coalesced in the first Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland, which established a world Zionist organization representing 117 groups the first year, 900 the next.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
11:46
So let me see about, let's see, Herzl here.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
11:51
What is it? Um...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
12:32
There it says, Kathleen Christensen, Perceptions of Palestine, Their Influence on U.S. Middle Eastern Policy, a book from 2000.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
12:43
John Herbert Davis, The Evasive Peace, A Study of the Zionist Arab Problem, that's a book from New World Press, 1970.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
12:52
It was called The Zionist Organization.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
12:55
Its name officially changed to World Zionist Organization.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
13:11
The Israel lobby in the U.S. is just the tip of an older and far larger iceberg known as political Zionism, an international movement that began in the late 1800s with the goal of creating a Jewish state somewhere in the world.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
13:25
In 1897, this movement, led by a European, quote-unquote, European journalist named Theodor Herzl, coalesced in the first Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland, which established a world Zionist organization representing 117 groups the first year, 900 the next.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
13:46
So let me see about, let's see, Herzl here.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
13:51
What is it? Um...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
14:43
John Herbert Davis, The Evasive Peace, A Study of the Zionist Arab Problem, verse...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
14:49
That's a book from New World Press, 1970.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
14:52
It was called The Zionist Organization.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
14:55
Its name officially changed to World Zionist Organization in 1960.
Ian LustickGUEST
50:06
And yet now we see the Department of Education under pressure from the lobby saying it is reviewing its curriculum and with an eye to removing this disturbing mark of anti-Semitism.
Ian LustickGUEST
50:19
What's really amazing is that that definition of antisemitism was used by the World Zionist Organization itself in the 1990s, as we see.
Ian LustickGUEST
50:28
And only recently, as the whole lobby in Israel, Hasbara propaganda has shifted to trying to use antisemitism as a smear, has that old and correct definition been abandoned.
Ian LustickGUEST
50:41
The simple definition of antisemitism is bigotry towards Jews as Jews.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
18:08
The only democracy, the only democracy in the region.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
18:12
Discrimination in residency is based on the fact that about 92% of Israel's land is the property of the state and is administered by the Israel Land Authority according to regulations issued by the Jewish National Fund, an affiliate of the World Zionist Organization.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
18:31
Have you ever seen me post that video of the, um No, that's Nope, different one.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
18:36
Different one.

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Pete QuiñonesHOST
255:40
Perhaps the most shocking example of this type is the delight with which some Zionist leaders in Germany welcomed Hitler's rise to power because they shared his belief in the primacy of race and his hostility to the assimilation of Jews among Aryans.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
255:54
They congratulated Hitler on his triumph over the common enemy, the forces of liberalism.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
255:58
Dr. Joachim Prinz, a Zionist rabbi who subsequently emigrated to the USA, where he rose to be vice chairman of the World Jewish Congress and a leading light in the World Zionist Organization, as well as a great friend of Golda Meir, published in 1934 a special book, Wir Juden, We Jews, to celebrate Hitler's so-called German Revolution and the defeat of liberalism.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
256:20
Quoting from that book, The meaning of the German Revolution for the German nation will eventually be clear to those who have created it and formed its image.

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