In 1916 Jakob Klatzkin wrote in ‘Der Jude’: “Only the Jewish Code rules our life. Whenever other laws are forced upon us, we regard them as dire oppression and constantly dodge them. We form in ourselves a closed juridical and business corporation. A strong wall built by us separates us from the people of the lands in which we live – and behind that wall is a Jewish State”.

‘Praise of Wisdom’ 1943, Jakob Klatzkin: Text 10, The Book of Secrets, is a wisdom instruction. It argues that true wisdom can come only from God and is a unique possession of the chosen people, Israel.

This kind of ideology might help explain why the Zionist state of Israel, clearly a law-unto-itself, has, as of 2013, been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Klatzkin made a radical distinction between two types of Jewish existence, namely, the ‘false’ exile or diaspora Jew and the true ‘national’ Jew. The former is a pure enemy of life, the latter a true political being, the only genuine Jew. For him secular Zionism is, in fact, a kind of transfigured theology.

For Klatzkin, both Christianity and traditional Judaism follow the authority of a devious spiritual God.