Anti-Zionist CD: Herzl is like Hitler

By Matthew Wagner
September 19th, 2006

Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, is compared to Adolf Hitler in a compact disk distributed to schools across the country by Shofar, an organization associated with haredi fire-and-brimstone preacher Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak.

Shofar’s CD is a professionally produced two-hour attack on secular Zionism that labels Herzl, Revisionist Zionist founder Ze’ev Jabotinsky, writer Joseph Haim Brenner, and prime minister David Ben-Gurion as anti-Semites who hated their own religious tradition.

But Herzl is singled out as a Hitlerian figure. In the video, Israelis, apparently chosen at random in Ramat Aviv’s Mall, are asked to read out loud excerpts from Herzl’s diary in which he advocates “encouraging anti-Semites to destroy Jewish property.” The people are then asked to guess who wrote the entry. One after another they reply, “Hitler.”

The video then cuts to footage of Hitler addressing the Reichstag. (….Full Article)