After jettisoning their Jewish values, the founding fathers of Zionism used a potpourri of ideologies to recast their Jewishness in the image of 19th-century philosophical ideas. One of the ideologies ZIonists relied on heavily to create their "new Jew" was fascism. In light of Israel's recent elections, this episode presents the history of fascist influence on classic and contemporary Zionism.
For more information, see Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, The Empty Wagon: Zionism's Journey From Identity Crisis to Identity Theft, Chapter 11, The Intellectual Origins of Zionism
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