January 10, 2006

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January 10, 2006

Host: Daryl Bradford Smith

Guest: R' Dovid Weiss

Here are today's lies, misstatements, disinformation, and stupidity:

(1) R' Weiss is incorrect in saying that the Zionist movement derived from the Reform Judaism movement. In fact, Reform Judaism had little or no impact on Poland and Eastern Europe, where the original Zionist settlers came from.

(2) R' Weiss says the chief rabbi in Palestine opposed the foundation of the state. He doesn't even get the rabbi's name right. He says the rabbi's name is Vishinsky (and later that it was Teitelbaum), but the chief Ashkenazi rabbi in 1947 was R' Yitzhak ha-Levi Herzog. Teitelbaum was never Chief Rabbi.

(3) R' Weiss and Daryl Bradford Smith disagree with regard to an overarching conspiracy of Jews moving behind history. Smith does not respond directly the rabbi on this point, but they continue to talk past one another for the remainder of the interview.

(4) Daryl Bradford Smith ties in Zionism with Sigmund Freud. Freud was, at best, an ambivalent Zionist, according to literary critic and Palestinian nationalist Edward Said. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/525/op2.htm