This 115-year-old Zionist essay is more relevant than ever.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky was a Russian-born author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I.

In 1911, Jabotinsky wrote this essay. It’s more relevant today than ever:

‘Instead of Apologizing’

Taking a long, hard look at the current penchant for accusations of ritual murder, one is left with a most oppressive feeling — a feeling that any impressionable individual will find hard to bear. Just think about it: these things are being said about us — about me, about you, about your mother!

So whenever we Jews speak with a Gentile, we must remain aware, every one of us, that our interlocutor may at that very moment be cowering to himself and thinking, “How do I know that you, too, haven’t been tippling from the glass of ritual murder?” Just try and get your head around that! I mean, when it comes down to it, this is even worse than everything else we have to put up with in this prison of a country.

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