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Theodor Herzl at the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, 1898. In 1897, at considerable personal expense, he founded the Zionist newspaper Die Welt in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and planned the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. He was elected president of the Congress (a position he held until his death in 1904), and in 1898 he began a ...
Mary Fels (1863–1953), German-born/American philanthropist, Georgist, suffragist, Zionist; Paul Friedmann (1840–c. 1900), German philanthropist, founded the short-lived Midian colony as a safe haven for Russian Jews; Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), born in Vishnevo, Russian Empire, founder and president of the World Zionist Congress
Zionism [a] is an ethnocultural nationalist [b] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people through the colonization of Palestine, [2] an area roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, [3] and of central importance in Jewish history.
The Anti-Defamation League defines the concept this way: "Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel ...
Theodor Herzl addresses the Second Zionist Congress in 1898. During the First Zionist Congress, the following agreement, commonly known as the Basel Program, was reached: Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law. The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end:
In its most basic definition, a Zionist is somebody who believes that the Jewish people have a right to statehood in their ancestral homeland as a place of refuge from centuries of persecution ...
The General Zionists (Hebrew: הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים, romanized: HaTzionim HaKlaliym) were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. The General Zionists supported the leadership of Chaim Weizmann and their views were largely colored by central European culture. [ 2 ]
When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist ...