Zionism

The idea of Zionism is the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland in Palestine, which fell to the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. When the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, the Jews were driven out of their country, but they never gave up hope that their homeland would be restored to the descendants of those who were forced into the diaspora (scattering).

After attending a historical conference, Theodor Herzl brought together and organized the first international Zionist congress. That conference was the origin of the World Zionist Organization, and it made major headway in the fight to get Palestine back for the Jews.

Owing to the amount of people going to Palestine, Great Britain approved a British mandate to oversee Palestine in 1922.

Even after so many people had gone to Palestine, it wasn’t until after World War II that the majority arrived. More than one million Jews, many of whom had survived the Nazi murder campaign, made their way to Palestine, which eventually led to the establishment of a Jewish state, called Israel. Israel declared its existence on May 14, 1948.

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The Avalon Project : Report to the United States Government and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom - USMARC Cataloging Record
... head of title: Anglo-American committee of inquiry 650 0 Jewish question 650 0 Zionism 651 0 Palestine Source: Lillian Goldman Law Library On-Line Public Catalog Anglo-American Committee 20th Century Page Avalon Homepage © 1999 The Avalon ...
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Albert Einstein Archives
... of quantum theory to expressions of his profound concern with civil liberties, Zionism, pacifism, and disarmament. The series will contain over 14,000 documents and will fill twenty-five volumes. So far, nine volumes have been published ...
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THHP Questions: Zionists and Nazis
First, the Zionists involved in these negotiations were not representative of Zionism as a movement. Before the foundation of the state of Israel in May 1948, Zionism was a fractious movement with many groups operating in differing ways to ...
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