In the midst of World War I, when many Jews supported Germany as it was fighting Russia, Great Britain came under increasing pressure to attempt to secure the support of American Jews, and in turn influence the US towards the allied side.
#WHAT WAS THE GOAL OF ZIONISM FULL#
It is a plan full of culture, excellent for the group of people for whom it is directly designed, and quite good for England, for Greater Britain…. put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan and to make the following declaration to a few people who swear by you: I, Rhodes have examined this plan and found it correct and practicable. Rhodes, are a visionary politician or a practical visionary… I want you to. “t doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial… ou, Mr. You are being invited to help make history,” Herzl wrote to Rhodes. Moreover, by 1902, when Herzl wrote a letter to Cecil Rhodes, he had explicitly adopted a European, colonialist model for Zionism: Zionism arose in that milieu and as a response to it.Īs to location of a Zionist state, Herzl exhibited flexibility in Der Judenstaat: "Shall we choose Palestine or Argentina? We shall take what is given us, and what is selected by public opinion." However, shortly before his death in 1904, Herzl declared that the Jewish State he envisioned must be in Palestine. While old-style, religious Jew hatred offered at least the theoretical way out by converting to the dominant religion of the time (usually Christianity or Islam), anti-Semitism left no escape. For centuries Jew hatred – often called "anti-Judaism" – had existed, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries a new form of "racial" hatred emerged, which was coined then as anti-Semitism. Indeed, during Herzl's day hatred towards Jews which had briefly looked to be subsiding with more and more states "emancipating" Jews, was growing again. These words were penned in the wake of such incidents as the Dreyfus affair in France, and into the face of a growing movement among Jews supporting assimilation into other cultures. This is the case, and will inevitably be so, everywhere, even in highly civilised countries-see, for instance, France-so long as the Jewish question is not solved on the political level. We are naturally drawn into those places where we are not persecuted, and our appearance there gives rise to persecution. Wherever it does not exist, it is brought in together with Jewish immigrants. He Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers. Central to his argument was the claim that: Theodor Herzl, a Serbian/Austro-Hungarian Jew and a journalist, published in 1896 a work entitled Der Judenstaat which laid out the foundational principles and goals of Zionism. But meaningful discussion of Zionism – including criticism, not infrequently made by Jews – can and does occur outside of the precincts of Stormfront-ville. Good old-fashioned anti-Semites also use "Zionist" as a snarl word to refer to anything they don't like done by anyone (supposedly or actually) Jewish. Jewish settlers have been aggressively staking claims on Palestinian land especially in the last decade. In more recent times, the term Zionism is often used to denote Israel's ongoing settlements in areas beyond the Green Line (that is, in the West Bank and Gaza), commonly referred to as the Palestinian territories. "Zion" is also a synonym for the Holy Land or the Jewish national homeland. Zion, one of the mountains that Jerusalem was built on. Indeed, the two are identical in the most salient aspects – "backing of a national identity with credible force" – whatever less salient or theoretical distinctions some may make between them. Zionism has long been a political movement and is typically synonymous with Jewish nationalism. By the early 20th century Palestine would be chosen as the location. Zionism is a mass political movement, originating in the 19th century, to establish a political and geographic nation- state for the Jewish people so they could escape the persecution and anti-Semitism that was then so prevalent throughout Europe, as it had been throughout the preceding centuries.
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