EINSTEIN ‘TOO JEWISH' FOR CHINA

New York Post ^ | 7/31/02 | Uri Dan

[kattracks]

July 31, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Israel has canceled an Albert Einstein exhibit in China after Beijing officials insisted there be no reference to his being Jewish or a supporter of the Jewish state, a government spokesman said yesterday.

The collection of Einstein memorabilia was to open in Beijing next month and travel to five other Chinese cities, in the biggest cultural exchange ever between the two countries.

[WyldKard]

Sheesh. Well..maybe Israel will think twice now before selling military equipment to the Chicoms...

[mlocher]

comrades, theory of relativity, written by mao zedung himself, give chinese leadership right to change policy any time it pleases to keep you chained to state. no abolutes in life. all your pi-mesons and electrons belong to us.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Aryan physics and Yellow Aryans come to mind.

"If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."

[Aaron_A]

I initially misread the title as "Feinstein too Jewish for China". Had a good chuckle over that one.

[veronica]

TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE CENTURY - ALBERT EINSTEIN

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Gee, you'd think the fact that he was a socialist would've greased the skids for him.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."

Why Socialism, by Albert Einstein

Now you know why Time approves of him.

[Black Agnes]

I don't find this surpriseing. Most of the chinese (proc) I work with are *extremely* anti-jewish. Foamingly at the mouth so in fact. One of them even stated that our support of Israel 'deserved' us 9/11. Typical. They seem to channel Chomsky and all the nasty al-jazeera stuff you hear.

[veronica]

If Einstein had remained as in love with Socialism as you claim, China would embrace him. And people change. David Horowitz was a leftie, now he's a Conservative icon.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

If Einstein had remained as in love with Socialism as you claim...

Those quoted words were his, not mine, and as far as I know they were never retracted. I'd love to be proven wrong... be my guest.

[Constitution Day]

I swear, the title reminded me of Blazing Saddles:

"I got it! I know how we can run everybody out of Rock Ridge...
We'll kill the firstborn male child of every household." - Mr. Taggart (Slim Pickens)
"Too Jewish." - Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman)

[Pharmboy]

If Einstein had remained as in love with Socialism as you claim, China would embrace him. And people change. David Horowitz was a leftie, now he's a Conservative icon.

Horowitz is the exception, Eistein the rule. I would also add, though, that following WWII I would think that many Jews could be forgiven (to a degree) for embracing socialism. I would, however, be proud had they embraced republicanism instead.

It is my understanding that Einstein never repudiated socialism.

[maui_hawaii]

(in my best old man Jewish accent) "Vit dat big honker who vouldn't know he is Jewish ..."

[veronica]

If that was supposed to be funny it wasn't. I know plenty of non-Jews with "big honkers".

[SlickWillard]

If Einstein had remained as in love with Socialism as you claim, China would embrace him. And people change. David Horowitz was a leftie, now he's a Conservative icon.

Einstein, while one of the five or ten greatest physicists who ever lived, was a monstrous human being. He fathered an illegitimate daughter by Mileva Maric in 1902, but forced her to give the child up for adoption. He later married Mileva, then abandoned her [the feminists believe he stole her work as well, though I'm dubious] in favor of his cousin, the divorcée Elsa Loewenthal [with whom he had had a lengthy affair during his marriage to Mileva]. He is remembered as a steely cold, even hateful husband [I treat my wife as an employee whom I cannot fire], and as a ruthless adulterer, whose children's lifelong health problems are suspected to stem from his own syphilis. In politics, he was a recalcitrant stalinist, with membership in more than 30 marxist organizations, many of which explicitly advocated the violent overthrow of the United States. After the second war, he carried on a treasonous affair with the adulteress Margarita Konenkova, herself a spy for the Soviet Union. The fact that he is remembered with any fondness whatsoever is a tribute to the extraordinary power of good marketing and a friendly press. Some links:

Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl
Early Letters
The Letters to Margarita Konenkova
Why Socialism?
FOIA Release of FBI Surveillance Documents

The Chinese hate him because he didn't charge them to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.

Seriously, though: They ought to treasure him as a marxist icon. The reason they don't has a lot to do with the Sino-Fascism that John Derbyshire has catalogued so eloquently.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Since when were the Chinese interested in Jews or Isreal?
Seems like they would be 2 non issues in China. It's not like Albert is visiting for tea, or sympathy, or anything too embarrassing. Just a little name dropping. Shouldn't hurt anyone. Y'a just never can tell who's gonna flake and cave to PC. They blinked.

[Brush_Your_Teeth]

Sheesh. Well..maybe Israel will think twice now before selling military equipment to the Chicoms...

Advanced military equipment that the chicoms could never produce on their own that we helped create. Then again the zionists want us to believe that Isreal is our ally.

[Michael2001]

I don't think that's true. The Chinese government is anti-all religions. But I doubt that very many Chinese Americans don't like Jews.