see how much more ideologized it
is than its predecessors. You will
see too how much more bitter it
is in its emotions. I believe that it
is bitter in the degree that it is
ideologized. I even venture to say
that it is bitter in the degree that
its members refer not to the prac–
tical issues of their lives but to
some vision they have of their total
being, some fantasy of self which
their ideology embodies.
We can characterize in much
the same way the attachment of
many Jews in this country to a
certain kind of Zionist action.
Nothing could be more significant
of the modern situation than the
intransigent commitment of this
traditionally peaceable group to
the ideas of the terrorist group in
Palestine, with the result that, be–
cause of the decisiveness of Amer–
ican support, other Zionist groups,
as large in numbers, as staunch in
loyalty to Zionist aims, but less ex–
treme in policy are left as power–
less in Palestine as they are unheard
in this country. This is not a mat–
ter which I have time to go into
now, but I refer you to the article
in the April issue of
Commentary
in which Robert Weltsch, the
Zionist journalist, pleads with
American Jews not to allow their
extremist ideology to blind them to
the realities of the Palestinian situ–
ation.
In art the quality of ideological
partisanship is, in potentiality, no
less intense and violent. I recently
chanced to read in a high school
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