A religious Jewish anti-Zionist reconceived Palestine as Arab-protected Orthodox enclave.

Evidence

Furthermore, as an attorney and legal theorist he sought to establish in Palestine a legal basis for Jewish communal existence and physical protection under Arab jurisdiction. Simultaneously, poetically and politically, he endeavored to undermine and circumvent the Zionist leadership in Palestine. He fell short of this goal, but his life and legacy illuminates how a vehement Jewish enemy of Zionism reconceived the Orient as an enclave for pious Jews, under the tutelage of British colonialism, and in close communion with Palestine’s Arabs. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 448

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the Orientalism tradition in general, and the odd alliance of Orthodox anti-Zionism with Arab protection against secular Zionism — echoes of latter-day Haredi anti-Zionist positions and the Neturei Karta.
  • SEED: An article angle: the forgotten history of Jews who wanted to live under Arab (not Zionist) jurisdiction in Palestine — pre-state religious anti-Zionism as a political program.