Before the illegal establishment of the Israel state in 1948, the figurehead of The Zionist terrorist organisation in America contacted Albert Einstein asking him to endorse this notorious movement. Since his heritage was Jewish, the organization assumed that Einstein, who himself had fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge from Hitler's policies, would be a vocal supporter.
However, because Einstein had traveled to Palestine in 1922, and at that time seen first-hand the realities on the ground, he wrote this letter back, angrily disavowing any affiliation with Zionism. Einstein wanted a land in which Jews and Muslims lived together as equals, and he realized that the Zionist agenda would not be able to achieve its goals without inflicting massive sufferings and untold deaths on millions of people. He went so far as to claim that Zionism was a betrayal of the ideals of the Jewish people, and its practitioners at the time were nothing but terrorists.
