At the core of hostility to Semitism lies Moses. He made a disastrous blunder, a horrible mix-up, and all enemies of Semitism for a long time originated from his misjudgment. Moses said we Jews could stay a people without having a land. He said we needn’t bother with an area to clutch our Jewish character. This was a disaster

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.

The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

No people in the world know collective eulogies as well as we Jews do. But we have no intention of going down in order that some should speak well of us.

Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews ‘stole’ land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of Arabs became very rich indeed.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

The man of the Cross, who heads the church whose symbol is the Cross, under which Jews were killed for generations. I could not escape the feeling. It stuck with me. And he felt it-that a Jewess was sitting opposite him.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) ‘Whatever you do, don’t ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow’s belly, etc. On the other hand you’re welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself’. I showed him my canvases.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don’t hate Jews.