Ebay is selling a letter written by Albert Einstein at the time of the Deir Yassin massacre in April 1948 to an American Zionist, denouncing the Zionist militias’ terrorist activities. It’s interesting that Einstein’s word, catastrophe, is also the Palestinians’ word in Arabic, the Nakba. This six-line letter, written by the greatest genius of our times, and ironically himself a Jew, Albert Einstein, in the year 1948, is a rare historical manuscript. The letter’s text is hereunder:
April 10, 1948
Mr. Shepard Rifkin
Exec. Director
American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel
149 Second Ave.
New York 3,N.Y.
Dear Sir:
When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build up from our own ranks.
I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed, ‘A. Einstein’)
Albert Einstein.
The description of the sale runs thus: “You are bidding on an original letter from Albert Einstein to Mr. Shepard Rifkin. Written in 1948 it cautions that any catastrophe befalling the fledgling nation of Israel will come from the actions of either its creators (Britain) or its citizens. Coincidentally the letter was written the morning after the Israelis carried out an unprovoked massacre of Palestinian civilians in the village of Deir Yassin.”
The opening bid is set at $16,000, and has not yet been made.
The proceeds from the sale of this item will benefit the Deir Yassin Remembered organisation including but not limited to: College scholarships for students pursuing education in Palestine, promotion of equality for all citizens of Palestine, production of public works to bring the truth of occupation to citizens of the world.
If the headlines from 1948 (the Deir Yassin massacre) to the present day (continued illegal settlements by Netanyahu encroaching on the lands of the Palestinians) are any measure of a man’s intellect, one must label Einstein a genius. Israel is indeed its own worst enemy, and here is the prescient pronouncement of it signed by a man of brilliance.