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Zionism was a colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement", and that "Zionist ideology and practice were necessarily and elementally expansionist." Morris describes the Zionist goal of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as necessarily displacing and dispossessing the Arab population.
Like the Zionist movement, the Bund was founded in 1897 and it was one of the largest socialist movements in Europe; however, it did not grow as fast as Zionism. [citation needed] The Bund campaigned for Jewish autonomy and recognition of Jewish (non-territorial) national rights within a socialist Russia. Initially the Bund included Zionist ...
It was founded as the Zionist Organization (ZO; 1897–1960) at the initiative of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, which took place in August 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. [1] The goals of the Zionist movement were set out in the Basel Program.
Ahad Ha'am (1856–1927), Russian Empire-born, Cultural Zionist; Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), born in the Austrian Empire, founding father of modern political Zionist movement; Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006), Polish-born Rabbi, lived in the United States, scholar of Zionism; Moses Hess (1812–1875), French-born philosopher, Labor Zionist
The American Zionist Movement (AZM) is the American federation of Zionist groups and individuals affiliated with the World Zionist Organization. See also ...
When the secular "people's lawyer" Louis Brandeis became involved in the movement in 1912, just before World War I, support for Zionism increased. [9] By 1917, Brandeis' leadership had increased American Zionist membership ten times to 200,000 members, and "American Jewry thenceforth became the financial center for the world Zionist movement," [10] greatly surpassing its previous European base ...
Religious Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת דָּתִית, romanized: Tziyonut Datit) is a religious denomination that views Zionism as a fundamental component of Orthodox Judaism. Its adherents are also referred to as Dati Leumi ( דָּתִי לְאֻמִּי , 'National Religious'), and in Israel, they are most commonly known by the ...
Young Judaea, a Zionist youth movement, is founded. 1910–1916 Antisemitic Zionist conspiracy theories regarding the Ottoman Young Turk ruling elite are fuelled within the British government through diplomatic correspondence from Gerard Lowther (British Ambassador to Constantinople) and Gilbert Clayton (Chief of British intelligence in Egypt ...