Anti-Zionism

Judaism. As Jews began to migrate towards the East and West, cultural, social , and religious tensions began to arise among the themselves as result of anti-semitism and lack of national pride among Jews. The different tensions experienced by Jews in the Diaspora…

internal or external nemesis is historically accurate and continues to be true. The mandate for Palestine was formally confirmed on Britain by the League of Nations in July 1922, which officially marked the beginning of Palestinian nationalism. Both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism defined themselves in relation to what they opposed and eventually identified the motives of their movements with the same geographic location. Jewish immigrants…

In this effort, Zionism redefined a religious community of Jews as a national community, which was established on the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination as other peoples. During 1882 to 1914, the pogroms and anti-Semitic policies of tsarist Russia and Europe caused more than three million Jews to migrate westward, including the New World, Central or Western…

Theodor Herzl studied law in the University of Vienna, graduating in 1884. Instead of studying law, Herzl became a writer and a journalist acting as Paris correspondent for an influential liberal Vienna newspaper. Herzl probably first experienced anti-Semitism while studying at the University of Vienna. He thought of the Jewish problem as a social issue and wrote a play called The Ghetto in 1894, about of Vienna Jewry, in which he rejected assimilation and conversion as solutions. He hoped…

Following Wilson’s victory, Brandeis played a major role in helping to shape the President’s “New Freedom,” economic policies and programs. President Wilson had initially hoped to appoint Brandeis to his cabinet. However, much to his disappointment, anti-Semitic opposition, organized and financed by leaders of Boston’s banking and legal establishment, had prevented him…

Controversial Book Puts Judaism in the Hot Seat For the author, Judaism is not even free from spiritual and political machinations by a few individuals. Aerospace materials scientist Sami M. El-Soudani deeply studied the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – for 20 years while authoring a great number of scientific papers. In his critical study of the three religions, he came to realize that the “search for God who demands our ‘faith in the unseen’ has been the most…

of the founding fathers of modern political Zionism. Herzl was a visionary and a practical man who suffered many failures while dealing with the Jewish question and he never gave up on his vision and ideas. In this essay, I will claim that if Herzl had not moved Zionism to center stage, we wouldn’t have a Jewish state today. Herzl believed that only by establishing a state for the Jewish people, the Jews could resolve their pain and bring an end to anti-Semitism. Herzl went on a path that had…

that can be made is that the Jews certainly do deserve the land they are fighting for. Before the topic at hand is discussed, the history of Jews and Zionists should be explored. According to the English dictionary a Zionist is, “a supporter of Zionism, a person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel”. Zionists played an immense role as a catalyst in the Arab Israeli conflict which is not necessarily a bad thing, after the holocaust the Jews…

To begin with, Zionism became about as an organized movement which was well- thought-out to have been initiated by Theodor Herzl. Theodor Herzl was the mastermind behind the contemporary Zionism and the reinstitution of Jewish home. He was well- educated in the sight of German-Jewish and knowledgeable to raise the value of secular culture. On the other hand, the history of Zionism started previously and is connected to Judaism and Jewish in the past. In 1870, and years later twenty new Jewish…

for the establishment of the State of Israel. But can we assume that without Herzl, the Jewish state would not get up? Or we can assume that Herzl was just in the right place at the right time? First, we have to understand the origin of the word "Zionism" – which is the other name of Jerusalem in the Bible. The modern term coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890, to describe the movement of "Lovers of Zion" (חובבי ציון). Later, when Birnbaum attended the First Zionist Congress, Herzl took the name…