Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe which primarily seeks to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine, a region which roughly corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism—itself central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews' historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to new waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Soon after this, most leaders o...
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Map depicting military operations from 15th May 1948 to 10th June 1948 during Israeli War of Indepen...
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2017.03.26 Anti-Israel Protest, Washington, DC USA 01929
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A 1936 caricature published in the Arabic-language Falastin newspaper on Zionism and Palestine
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Ber Dov Berochov (1881-1917) - a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labour Zionist movem...
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David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State ...
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A stylized representation of a dodgerblue flag.
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Emblem of Israel.
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Карта Израиля
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Location map of Israel. De facto situation.
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The Jewish Chronicle. January 17 1896
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King Crane Commission 1919 Summary of Arguments Presented to the Commission For and Against Zionism
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"Memorandum to the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America", Colonial Times (Hobart, Ta...
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Women training at Mishmar HaEmek kibbutz in 1947 or during the 1948 Arab Israeli War.
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Sujet : Judée
Ancien possesseur : Luynes, Honoré d'Albert de (1802-1867). Ancien possesseur
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In the course of the operation "Magic Carpet" (1949-1950), the entire community of Yemenite Jews (ca...
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Palestine as claimed by the World Zionist Organization in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference
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Provisional frontiers of the Palestine partition according to the Palestine Royal Commission (Peel r...
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English: Extended Confirmed protection lock with grey shackle