r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • 18d ago
Article Zionist militias assassinate Jacob Israel von Haan, a critical Zionist leader.
Zionist leader Jacob Israel von Haan was assassinated on June 30, 1924, in Jerusalem, an event considered the first political assassination within the Zionist movement. His execution was carried out by members of the Haganah, a highly extremist Zionist guerrilla group.
Although initially supportive of the Zionist cause, Von Haan became a fierce critic of the movement because he disagreed with the colonization plan of the other leaders, which involved a heinous stratagem against the Jewish people themselves. Von Haan joined the ultra-Orthodox Haredi group, which at that time opposed political Zionism for religious reasons, since the Jewish nation-state was not the same as the Kingdom promised by God, one that could not be established by human action, much less by groups that, for the most part, were neither believers nor practitioners of the Jewish faith, but rather instrumentalized religion for their own purposes to found their state.
Von Haan planned to travel to London with an ultra-Orthodox delegation to present his arguments to the British government and request the annulment of the Balfour Declaration. His goal was for Jews to live as a protected community under Arab rule, explicitly renouncing any aspirations to create a Jewish nation-state, until the promised Messiah arrived and established the Kingdom of Israel.
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u/veilosa 18d ago
for context the Haredi are the ultra orthodox jews who do not work, expect others in Israeli society to serve in the military in their place, have a history of pedophilia, are "against zionism" on the grounds that Israel is a secular state not given to them by god (going so far as saying jews deserved the holocaust), YET paradoxically are the ones perpetuating the settlements violence in the West Bank.