Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine, which roughly corr
Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), founder and leader of the movement to revive the Hebrew language, is considered the father of Modern Hebrew.
"Memorandum to the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America", published in the Colonial Times (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), in 1841
Front page of The Jewish Chronicle, January 17, 1896, showing an article by Theodor Herzl, a month prior to the publication of his pamphlet Der Judenstaat
Zionism has been described by several scholars as a form of settler colonialism in relation to the region of Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Zionism's founders and early leaders were a
Members of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association in Palestine c. 1920–1925
Upon Israel's occupation of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israeli bulldozers cleared [he] what had been the Mughrabi Quarter, creating the Western Wall Plaza. Scholars have discussed such moves as examples of Israel's Judaization of Jerusalem and Israeli settler colonialism.
A graph by Neve Gordon showing the population shift from 1947 to 1951 in Israel–Palestine, plotted with the % of land controlled by what he calls the "Jewish establishment"
Hebrew graffiti spray-painted on a home in a-Sawiyah, Nablus District by Zionist settlers in 2018 reads "Kill or deport."