Zionism

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[[File:Zionist Nazis.png|thumb|Zionism shares many similarities with Nazism and seeks to settler-colonize lands for the benefit of its "master race"]]
'''Zionism''' (from ''[[Zion]]'', a word in the [[Tanach]] referring to the [[Land of Israel]]) is a [[Racism|racist]], [[Ethnonationalism|ethno-nationalist]], and [[Settler colonialism|settler colonial]] ideology which asserts that [[Jewish people|Jews]] are a [[nation]] and calls for the creation and maintenance of a Jewish [[ethnostate]]. The movement first emerged in the late-[[19th Century]] in response to [[antisemitism]], which was particularly prevalent in [[Europe]]. Zionists made attempts to set up a Jewish state in many places, perhaps most infamously in [[East Africa Protectorate (1895–1920)|British East Africa]] (see the [[Uganda Scheme]]), but they ultimately settled on the [[Levant]] due to its historical and religious significance as the homeland of the Jewish people.

On 14 May 1948, the [[Palestine (1920–1948)|British Mandate of Palestine]] under the [[League of Nations]] was terminated. That same day, the so-called "[[State of Israel]]" [[Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|declared its independence]], claiming 56% of the territory of Palestine as its own. The Zionist Entity waged [[1948 Arab–Israeli war|a genocidal war]] against the native [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] population, and three-quarters of the indigenous population (around 750,000 people) were expelled from or made to flee their homes in an event known as the [[Nakba]]. Those very same Palestinians along with their descendents are denied to this day the [[Palestinian right of return|right of return]] to the land which was stolen from them and settled on by Jewish colonists, and Palestinians experience [[segregation]] and [[discrimination]] in the [[Gaza Strip]], the [[West Bank]], and "Israel" proper.

Many Jewish people oppose Zionism, and 38% of [[United States of America|Statesian]] Jews under 40 years old acknowledge that the [[State of Israel|Zionist Entity]] is an [[apartheid]] state.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Philip Weiss|newspaper=Mondoweiss|title=Israel heads further right: 30-40 percent of young support fascistic Jewish party|date=2022-08-10|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/israel-heads-further-right-30-40-percent-of-young-support-fascistic-jewish-party/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811065925/https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/israel-heads-further-right-30-40-percent-of-young-support-fascistic-jewish-party/|archive-date=2022-08-11|retrieved=2022-08-12}}</ref> Orthodox Jews also consider Zionism a severe violation of Jewish law.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The Government of Israel Has a Very Serious Antisemitism Problem|date=2020-02-21|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/government-israel-antisemitism-problem/265057/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912185322/https://www.mintpressnews.com/government-israel-antisemitism-problem/265057/|archive-date=2022-09-12|retrieved=2022-10-25}}</ref> Most Zionists are not Jews but rather Christians. There are more than 20 million evangelical [[Christianity|Christian]] Zionists in the United States. The largest Zionist organization in the U.S. is [[Christians United for Israel]], which has 7 million members.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Whitney Webb|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The Untold Story of Christian Zionism's Rise to Power in the United States|date=2019-07-12|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/untold-story-christian-zionists-power-united-states-israel/260532/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615155410/https://www.mintpressnews.com/untold-story-christian-zionists-power-united-states-israel/260532/|archive-date=2022-06-15|retrieved=2022-09-17}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Early Zionism ===
Before being adopted by Jews, Zionism was first proposed by European Christians. In the 16th century, [[Kingdom of England (927–1707)|English]] clergyman [[Thomas Brightman]] proposed that the Jewish diaspora return to [[Jerusalem]]. In the late 18th century, [[Austria|Austrian]] field marshal Charles-Joseph of Ligne said that the Jews should be returned to their homeland.

Zionism became more popular among Jewish people in the 19th century due to increased antisemitism in Europe and [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russia]]. In 1897, [[Theodor Herzl]] founded the [[World Zionist Organization]]. At the end of the [[First World War]], the [[British]] claimed former [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman]] territories, including [[Palestine]]. Evangelical Protestants encouraged Jews to leave Europe and settler migration into Palestine began. During this period, Zionists collaborated extensively with the [[Nazi|Nazis]], who shared their goal of removing Jewish people from Europe.<ref>{{Citation|author=Faris Yahya|year=1978|title=Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany|pdf=https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zionist-Relations-with-Nazi-Germany-Faris-Yahya-PSR-Beirut-1978.pdf|city=Beirut|publisher=Palestine Research Center|series=Palestine Essays|volume=47}}</ref> From 1936 to 1939, Arabs revolted against the British and the settlers. In 1939, the British restricted further Jewish immigration into Palestine. In 1947, the [[United Nations]] created a plan to partition Palestine into two independent states with a neutral Jerusalem.<ref name=":0">{{News citation|newspaper=Line Struggle Collective|title=Deconstructing and debunking Zionism|date=2019-11-20|url=https://linestruggle.medium.com/deconstructing-and-debunking-zionism-4a3f60625d9a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621235056/https://linestruggle.medium.com/deconstructing-and-debunking-zionism-4a3f60625d9a|archive-date=2021-06-21|retrieved=2022-07-05}}</ref>

=== Establishment of the Zionist Entity ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
Zionists started a war against Palestinians in 1947 and the [[State of Israel|State of "Israel"]] was established in 1948. The Zionist Entity expelled 700,000 Palestinians from their land in an event known as the [[Nakba]].<ref name=":0" />

== Other proposed Jewish states ==
From 1658 to 1666, a Jewish colony existed in [[Colony of Surinam (1650–1667)|English Guiana]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Samuel Oppenheim|title=An Early Jewish Colony in Western Guiana, 1658-1666|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059606?seq=1|page=95|publisher=American Jewish Historical Society}}</ref> In 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah founded a Jewish city on Grand Island, New York. It never succeeded and the island was sold to a timber investor in 1833.<ref>{{News citation|author=Michael Feldberg|newspaper=My Jewish Learning|title=Mordecai Manuel Noah|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mordecai-manuel-noah/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624155437/https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mordecai-manuel-noah/|archive-date=2022-06-24|retrieved=2022-07-05}}</ref> In 1903, Theodor Herzl proposed the creation of a Jewish state in [[East Africa Protectorate (1895–1920)|British East Africa]] in what is now [[Republic of Kenya|Kenya]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Alona Ferber|newspaper=Haaretz|title=1903: Herzl Proposes Kenya (Not Uganda) as a Safe Haven for the Jews|date=2015-08-15|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1903-herzl-proposes-kenya-as-jewish-home-1.5391077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408053352/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1903-herzl-proposes-kenya-as-jewish-home-1.5391077|archive-date=2022-04-08|retrieved=2022-07-05}}</ref> The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] created the [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]] in 1934, which continued to exist as an autonomous oblast in the [[Russian Federation]] after the [[Overthrow of the Soviet Union|dissolution of the Soviet Union]].

== UN Resolution 3379 ==
On 10 November 1975, the [[United Nations]] General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism to be a form of racism and racial discrimination. It passed with 72 votes for, 32 against, and 35 abstentions.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=United Nations Bibliographical Information System|title=Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination|date=1975-11-10|url=http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=108V0691N26Y9.82&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&profile=voting&ri=&index=.VM&term=A/RES/3379(XXX)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116112214/http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=108V0691N26Y9.82&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&profile=voting&ri=&index=.VM&term=A/RES/3379(XXX)|archive-date=2013-01-16|retrieved=2022-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=United Nations Digital Library|title=Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination|date=1975-11-10|url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/189598|retrieved=2023-11-20}}</ref>

On 16 December 1991, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution revoking the determination contained in resolution 3379, with 111 votes for, 25 against, and 13 abstentions.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=United Nations Digital Library|title=Elimination of racism and racial discrimination|date=1991-12-16|url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/135193|retrieved=2023-11-20}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Lebensraum]]
* [[Manifest Destiny]]
* [[Ethno-nationalism]]

== References ==

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