THE PROBLEM OF ZIONISM There is an attitude for which my friends and I were for a long period rebuked and even reviled; and of which at the present period we are less likely than ever to repent.

It was always called Anti-Semitism; but it was always much more true to call it Zionism.

At any rate it was much nearer to the nature of the thing to call it Zionism, whether or no it can find its geographical concentration in Zion.
The substance of this heresy was exceedingly simple.

It consisted entirely in saying that Jews are Jews; and as a logical consequence that they are not Russians or Roumanians or Italians or Frenchmen or Englishmen.

During the war the newspapers commonly referred to them as Russians; but the ritual wore so singularly thin that I remember one newspaper paragraph saying that the Russians in the East End complained of the food regulations, because their religion forbade them to eat pork.