Interesting.
It's also parrots near century old standard Stalinist championship of Yiddish as True Workers language while Hebrew banned as the language of Zionist nationalism https://t.co/Uqu2me3jHr
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) June 24, 2025
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As a linguistics PhD student, I always find it interesting when anti-Zionist activists hugely praise Yiddish representation. It is such a contrast to the derision with which they often treat Hebrew, which to this day is the only successful example of large-scale linguistic revival. An indisputably remarkable and unmatched linguistic feat.
It illustrates how, at best, anti-Zionist activists want Jews to be: minorities all over the world who should be allowed to express their identity (at least the aspects of that identity that are deemed acceptable) within their diaspora countries, but not a liberated people. Not a people with self-determination: speaking their indigenous language daily in a nation of their own in their ancestral homelands.
Added, from Simon Schama:
"anti Zionists today also fearful of Hebrew as proof of indigeneity – however much revived as daily vernacular it remains in all crucial respects the identical language as that used by the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ( beautiful ) Hebrew of the Mishnah"
"the Mishnah btw codified in 3rd century Galilee.. Hebrew and Judaism never left"
Mick Hartley 
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