23 Facts About Zionist movement

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Zionism is a nationalist Zionist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel, the region of Palestine, Canaan, or the Holy Land, on the basis of a long Jewish connection and attachment to that land.

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Zionist movement ideology consisted in a negation of Jewish life in the Diaspora.

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The political Zionist movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book Der Judenstaat .

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At that time, the Zionist movement sought to encourage Jewish migration to Ottoman Palestine particularly among those Jewish communities who were poor, unassimilated and whose 'floating' presence caused disquiet, in Herzl's view, among assimilated Jews and stirred anti-Semitism among Christians.

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Major aspects of the Zionist movement idea are represented in the Israeli Declaration of Independence:.

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Zionist movement convinced Suleiman I to intervene with the Pope on behalf of Ottoman-subject Portuguese Jews imprisoned in Ancona.

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Zionist movement first tried to establish a settlement in Gaza, but moved later to Smyrna.

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Zionist movement emigrated to Ottoman Palestine and established an agricultural colony in the Valley of Rephaim of Jerusalem.

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The Zionist movement's headquarters were located in Berlin, as many of its leaders were German Jews who spoke German.

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Zionist movement enterprise was mainly funded by major benefactors who made large contributions, sympathisers from Jewish communities across the world, and the settlers themselves.

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The Zionist movement Socialist Workers Party was an organization that favored the idea of a Jewish territorial autonomy outside of Palestine.

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Zionist movement remained in that role until 1948, and then was elected as the first President of Israel after the nation gained independence.

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Since the creation of the State of Israel, the World Zionist movement Organization has functioned mainly as an organization dedicated to assisting and encouraging Jews to migrate to Israel.

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Multi-national, worldwide Zionist movement is structured on representative democratic principles.

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The Zionist movement was democratic from its inception and women had the right to vote.

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Until 1917, the World Zionist movement Organization pursued a strategy of building a Jewish National Home through persistent small-scale immigration and the founding of such bodies as the Jewish National Fund and the Anglo-Palestine Bank .

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In 1942, at the Biltmore Conference, the Zionist movement included for the first time an express objective of the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.

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Kadima, the main centrist party during the 2000s that split from Likud and is defunct did identify with many of the fundamental policies of Liberal Zionist movement ideology, advocating among other things the need for Palestinian statehood in order to form a more democratic society in Israel, affirming the free market, and calling for equal rights for Arab citizens of Israel.

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In 1935 the Revisionists left the World Zionist movement Organization because it refused to state that the creation of a Jewish state was an objective of Zionism.

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Pro-Zionist movement views were embraced by many evangelicals and affected international foreign policy.

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Zionist movement met routinely with Zionist officials and had a part in every pro-Zionist Arab organization from the beginning of the British Mandate, publicly rejecting Mohammad Amin al-Husayni's use of Islam to attack Zionism.

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Zionist movement cites the example of Ahad Ha'am, who after visiting Palestine in 1891, published a series of articles criticizing the aggressive behaviour and political ethnocentrism of Zionist settlers.

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Zionist success in winning British support for the formation of a Jewish National Home in Palestine helped inspire the Jamaican Black nationalist Marcus Garvey to form a movement dedicated to returning Americans of African origin to Africa.

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