Enter the Zionist Ruppin

It is possible that his encounters with Zionist activists such as Sami Grunaman (1875-1952),109 Albert Goldberg and Heinrich Loewe (1869-1951), who stressed the practical over the ideological,ideological, also influenced his decision to turn to Zionism.

One can see here a pattern in Ruppin’s interpretation: he accepts anti-Semitic assumptions, adapts them according to the new statistical data he has organized, but attaches them only to certain marginal and declining groups (such as the ultra-orthodox or the Sephardic/Oriental/Arab Jews, as will be discussed later).

Again the quote from the thesis' author makes it plain that Ruppin is an opportunist that bends in the direction of even the slightest breeze!