Elaborate Yiddishist Anti-Zionist Joke?
The Forward, which has a deep left-leaning Yiddishist history, said the Christopher Columbus should be celebrated as an 15th Century Theodore Herzl. If this is a joke, well done The Forward. If not and they really are looking to compare Zionisms to the “discovery” of the “New World” then well done on making the argument for all anti-Zionists.
If this wasn’t a joke I can’t believe the editors allowed such a sloppy and simple version of history (and historical comparison) to be published on its website. Either way this will be used for proof of something that The Forward didn’t intend. It is pretty surprising.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day.
I thought Columbus Day could be considered a Jewish holiday because of the evidence that Christopher Columbus was actually a Jew.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewish/
And maybe I should have read The Forward article before commenting….