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Socialist Zionists formed the Poale Zion ("Workers of Zion") movement, launching parties across Europe, North America and Palestine, in the 1900s - of which the most significant was the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion) in Russia in 1906 - and a world union in 1907.
His ideas contributed to the Religious Zionism movement. 1867 Mark Twain visits Palestine as part of a tour of what westerners call the Holy Land. 1869 Twain publishes The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress documenting his observations through his travels. He indicated he observed that Palestine was primarily an uninhabited desert ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to ...
British Zionist leader Chaim ... mass protests began to erupt opposing Jewish immigration as the Palestinian movement tried in vain to counter and resist what its members considered a usurpation ...
In the early 20th century a more ideologically motivated wave of Zionist immigrants arrived in Palestine. With them, the Zionist movement began to emphasize the so-called "conquest of labor," the belief that the employment of exclusively Jewish labor was the pre-condition for the development of an independent Jewish society in Palestine. [68]
Towards the end of the 19th century, the creation of the Zionist movement resulted in many Jews immigrating to Palestine. Most land purchases between the late 1880s and the 1930s were located in the coastal plain area, including "Acre to the North and Rehovoth to the South, the Esdraelon (Jezreel) and Jordan Valleys and to the lesser extent in ...
At hundreds of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in recent weeks, the terms "Zionism" or "Zionist" have been hurled disparagingly against Jewish students and pro-Israel demonstrators.
The Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, known in the United Kingdom as the Palestine Emergency, [5] [6] was a paramilitary campaign carried out by Zionist militias and underground groups—including Haganah, Lehi, and Irgun—against British rule in Mandatory Palestine from 1944 to 1948.