A Brief history of Zionism
A Brief history of Zionism “ A land without people, for a people without land” Israel Zangwill, Zionist slogan with context to Palestine Zionism is essentially the Israeli’s nationalist ideology that derives its beliefs from Judaism. According to the religious texts, the Four Holy cities of Jerusalem, Tiberias, Hebron and Safed were the Jewish centers and therefore the Israelis had the historical right to reconstitute the then Palestine ( under the ottoman empire) into a Jewish Homeland. The First wave of Zionist colonists have been said to reach Palestine around 1881-82. This mass exodus of the Israelis from Eastern Europe to the city of Jaffa earmarked an important time as it was the first inflow of a christian bloc into an Arab dominated area. The populace was termed as ‘Lovers of Zion’ who then started building Jewish towns and settlements in Palestine. As a result, the city, Rishon Le-Zion came up in 1882 and comprised 50 jewish settlements. However, soon enough the Zionists bega...