I feel like if we started a thread discussing this it would be like two AI’s hallucinating against eachother.

I certainly can understand that, while also wanting to get to the bottom of this! I’ll probably start a new thread about it, but not right now.

Regarding his back story, I find it immensely interesting in that he was racist all around.

Herzl himself also was a very rich dude from a rich family and he certainly didn’t face any of the suffering or antisemtism which other Jews faced at the time.

Oh wow! You writing that struck like lightning! Maybe his racism against Jews and Palestinians boils down to classism.