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ZIONISM

The Zionist movement in the late 19th century was caused by nationalist currents in Europe, as well as the need to secure Jewish life in Eastern Europe, which led many Jewish intellectuals to seek a new basis for a Jewish national life. One of these intellectuals was Theodore Herzl, a Viennese journalist who wrote The Jewish State which was about the need to form a Jewish state as a solution to the Diaspora (The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from 6th century B.C., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.) and to anti-Semitism. In 1897 Herzl called the first World Zionist Congress at Basel, which brought together diverse pro-Zionist groups into one movement. The meeting helped found Zionist organizations in most countries with large Jewish populations.
The debate on whether or not Palestine was essential for a Jewish state was the first issue to split the Zionist movement. A majority of the delegates to the 1903 congress felt that Palestine was......

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