Category: Zionism
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Zionism as a Reaction to European Anti-Semitism
Introduction Scholars like Robert Wistrich and Joseph Massad debate over the exact cause of the Jewish Zionism in the better part of the 19th century. Initially, the Jews lived in different communities across Europe and in Palestine; they lacked a place of their own in which they could live as one community. Following the prejudice…
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Zionism as a Political Movement
Zionism is an astonishing political movement that emerged in the late 19th century. At that time, the Jews were desperate to return to their ancestral homeland. Moreover, the emerging Zionist movements goal was that all Jews are one nation, and they should have their sovereign state and return to their historical homeland (qtd. in NowThis…