What is Zionism ? I only need the facts..not opinions. Thanks.?

Answer 1

Zionism is, simply put, the belief that the Jewish people need a state of their own - albeit a tiny one!

Jews have always dreamed of returning to Israel, formerly known as Palestine, and before that called Judea. There has been a continuous Jewish presence in that part of the world for almost 4000 years.

In fact, the term 'Palestinian' originally referred to the Jews in that area. Mark Twain, returning from a visit to Palestine in the 19th Century, famously reported: 'Apart from all the Jews living there, there is nothing but a few wandering Arab nomads.'

The 'Palestinian people' as we know them today, did not emerge as a distinct entity until 1969, some two decades AFTER Israel was established. Prior to that, they referred to themselves simply as 'Arabs'.

Answer 2

Zionism is a colonial movement by all means read the history of Zionism.

Answer 3

Here is the wikipedia articles definition of Zionism:

Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.[1] Formally organized in the late 19th century, the movement was successful in establishing the State of Israel in 1948, as the world's first and only modern Jewish State. It continues primarily as support for the state and government of Israel and its continuing status as a homeland for the Jewish people.[2] Described as a "diaspora nationalism,"[3] its proponents regard it as a national liberation movement whose aim is the self-determination of the Jewish people.[4] Opposition to Zionism has arisen on a number of grounds, ranging from religious objections to competing claims of nationalism to political dissent that considers the ideology either immoral or impractical.[5]

While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, where the concept of Jewish nationhood is thought to have first evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and the late Second Temple era,[6][7] the modern movement was mainly secular, beginning largely as a response by European Jewry to rampant antisemitism across the continent.[8] At first one of several Jewish political movements offering alternative responses to the position of Jews in Europe, Zionism gradually gained more support, and the Holocaust accelerated Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel.

For more information on this see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

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Answer 4

The political movement that holds the idea that the Jewish people should have a country in their ancient land of Israel. Theodore Herzl was a major leader in Zionism.
But guess who the first Zionist was?
That's right, God!

Answer 5

A political movement founded in the 19th century by Europeans of jewish descent who claimed that their sky god had given Palestine to them centuries ago therefore they should be allowed to go there and take over the land again.
Imagine the mess the world would be in if everyone behaved like that.