The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict #11: The Joy of My World is in Zion
“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce
The Background for the Longest Soap Opera in History — Part 10
The Joy of My World is in Zion
The rising antisemitism and the persecution of Jews during the 19th century brought many Jews to contemplate ways to respond to the challenges and experiences faced by Jewish communities around the world. Many Jews were motivated to seek a homeland where they could live free from persecution. These thoughts and desires developed until they took the form of a movement by the name of Zionism. The First Zionist Congress, organized by Herzl in 1897, marked the official beginning of the Zionist movement.
If We Don’t Stand Up For Ourselves, Who Will?
As a minority group, Jews around the world started to develop a sense of self-identity as a group, and ideas of self-determination started to emerge. These ideas were developed by Jewish intellectuals in Europe and the USA until they took the form of an ideology that later developed into a movement known as Zionism.
