SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: One of the first people to promote the idea that Zionism was racism was not in fact the Soviets but UK cabinet minister Edwin Montagu, the only Jewish member of the Cabinet when the Balfour Declaration was issued,

Monday, 5 October 2026

One of the first people to promote the idea that Zionism was racism was not in fact the Soviets but UK cabinet minister Edwin Montagu, the only Jewish member of the Cabinet when the Balfour Declaration was issued,

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One of the first people to promote the idea that Zionism was racism was not in fact the Soviets but UK cabinet minister Edwin Montagu, the only Jewish member of the Cabinet when the Balfour Declaration was issued, which he opposed, calling Zionism a ‘mischievous political creed’.

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Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

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Emerging from our festival of Simchat Torah tonight, I was appalled to hear that the Green Party had passed its ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion earlier today.
 
It was the Soviet Union which first promoted the dangerous lie that Zionism is racism. The UN adopted it, but was then