Zionism
There are several different forms of Zionism. From the 1920s until the 1970s, the dominant form was Labor Zionism, which sought to link socialism and nationalism. By the 1920s, Labor Zionists in Palestine established the kibbutz movement (a kibbutz is a collective commune, usually with an agricultural economy), the Jewish trade union and cooperative movement, the main Zionist militias (the Haganah and Palmach) and the political parties that ultimately coalesced in the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.
Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, is a political movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel as a result of Antisemitism. The movement developed at the time of major European territorial acquisitions in Asia and Africa, and benefited from the European powers' competition for influence in the shrinking Ottoman Empire. From 1917 it focused on the establishment of a Jewish national homeland or state in Palestine, the location of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
While Zionism expresses the historical link between the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, modern Zionism might not have arisen as an active national movement in the 19th century without anti-Antisemitism considered in a continuum of centuries of persecution.
The Zionist movement aimed to solve the "Jewish problem," the problem of a perpetual minority, a people subjected to repeated pogroms and persecution, a homeless community who were underscored by discrimination wherever Jews settled. Zionism aspired to deal with this situation by affecting a return to the historical homeland of the Jews - Land of Israel.
There were many different types of Zionism including political, practical, synthetic, labor, revisionist, cultural, revolutionary, and religious Zionism. From the 1920s until the 1970s, the dominant form was Labor Zionism, which sought to link socialism and nationalism. The revisionist form of Zionism was led by Vladimir Jabotinsky. They earned the name “Revisionist” because they wanted to revise the boundaries of Jewish territory beyond Palestine. In the 1920s and 1930s, they differed from Labor Zionists by declaring openly the objective to establish a Jewish state (rather than the vaguer formula of a “national home”) in Palestine. And they believed that armed force would be required to establish such a state.
The Zionist Movement insisted that the reconstruction of the Jewish belonging through the creation of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel. This vision materialized following the Balfour Declaration, a sweeping commitment from Great Britain to Chaim Weizmann made on November 2, 1917. The Declaration endorsed the aim of the first Zionist Congress to secure a “national home” for Jews in Palestine.
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Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, is a political movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel as a result of Antisemitism. The movement developed at the time of major European territorial acquisitions in Asia and Africa, and benefited from the European powers' competition for influence in the shrinking Ottoman Empire. From 1917 it focused on the establishment of a Jewish national homeland or state in Palestine, the location of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
While Zionism expresses the historical link between the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, modern Zionism might not have arisen as an active national movement in the 19th century without anti-Antisemitism considered in a continuum of centuries of persecution.
The Zionist movement aimed to solve the "Jewish problem," the problem of a perpetual minority, a people subjected to repeated pogroms and persecution, a homeless community who were underscored by discrimination wherever Jews settled. Zionism aspired to deal with this situation by affecting a return to the historical homeland of the Jews - Land of Israel.
There were many different types of Zionism including political, practical, synthetic, labor, revisionist, cultural, revolutionary, and religious Zionism. From the 1920s until the 1970s, the dominant form was Labor Zionism, which sought to link socialism and nationalism. The revisionist form of Zionism was led by Vladimir Jabotinsky. They earned the name “Revisionist” because they wanted to revise the boundaries of Jewish territory beyond Palestine. In the 1920s and 1930s, they differed from Labor Zionists by declaring openly the objective to establish a Jewish state (rather than the vaguer formula of a “national home”) in Palestine. And they believed that armed force would be required to establish such a state.
The Zionist Movement insisted that the reconstruction of the Jewish belonging through the creation of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel. This vision materialized following the Balfour Declaration, a sweeping commitment from Great Britain to Chaim Weizmann made on November 2, 1917. The Declaration endorsed the aim of the first Zionist Congress to secure a “national home” for Jews in Palestine.
"Israel Studies: An Anthology - The History of Zionism." Israel Studies: An Anthology - The History of Zionism. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"Israel: Zionism." Zionism: Table of Contents. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"Types of Zionism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Mar. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"Zionism | Middle East Research and Information Project." Zionism | Middle East Research and Information Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"Zionism And Its Impact, 452." Zionism And Its Impact, 452. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"ZIONISM- Background." ZIONISM- Background. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.
"Zionism." Definition and History. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.