— Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances MalinoClearly, without British support, the Zionist project would have died in the cradle. Yet Britain’s role was inconsistent, vacillating between promoting and throttling the Zionist project. Britain was more a stepfather than a biological parent of the Jewish state. Thus, even critics of Zionism such as Daniel Boyarin and Gershon Shafir have acknowledged that the Zionist movement lacked a “mother country” and therefore defies simplistic association with European settlement colonialism.
Replicated under Fair Use from Colonialism and the Jews (The Modern Jewish Experience) by Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances Malino.