re zionism racism center for policy research cpr igc apc org writes from center for policy research cpr subject zionism racism diaspora a cancer by julian kossoff and lindsay schusman in jewish chronicle london dec leading israeli author and cultural commentator a b yehoshua launched a ferocious attack on diaspora jewry at a zionist youth council meeting in north london last week the diaspora he claimed was the cancer connected to the main tissue of the jewish people he was scathing about its failure to act before the holocaust deleted for bravity jewish values in israel embraced every aspect of daily life unlike in the diaspora where jews had no responsibility for the country they lived in he said he warned that modern hebrew a unifying force for the jewish people would have to struggle for its future especially in literary circles it faced fierce competition from the english language so amos amos shapira jumper extraordinaire it is true that power corrupts c s system group hebrew university but absolute power is better jerusalem israel amoss cs huji ac il the demon to his son
