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This 8 page paper discusses the Zionist movement, some of its prominent thinkers, reactions to it, and whether or not it has been successful. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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of Israel. This paper attempts to discuss the Zionist movement objectively. Discussion Well begin with a brief look at the persecution of the Jews throughout history and consider a few
basic points from a source devoted to religious tolerance. B.A. Robinson points out that before 1800 CE, Jews were persecuted in Europe based on their religious beliefs, and if they
were willing to covert to Christianity and be baptized, the persecution stopped (Robinson, 2005). Christians taught that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, and were to be despised
for that reason (Robinson, 2005). But they also believed, based on teachings from the Book of Revelation, that Jews had some sort of role to play in the "end times"
(Robinson, 2005). Because of this unspecified involvement in the great events to come, some Jews were to be left alive (Robinson, 2005). Unsettling as this may be, the point here
is that Jews were persecuted as long as they clung to Jewish beliefs; if they were willing to give them up, they were left in peace. Thats like saying that
racists would stop persecuting a black man if he stopped going to church; even though he was still black, he would now be accepted. After approximately 1800 CE however, things
changed. As nationalism became "a dominant value in the Western and Arab worlds...anti-Semitism increasingly focused on the Jews peoplehood and nationhood" (Robinson, 2005). Thus, persecution "became a form of racism";
the word "anti-Semitism" was "created by an antisemite, Wilhelm Marr [in 1879]. Marrs intention was to replace the German word Judenhass (Jew-hatred) with a term that would make Jew-haters sound
less vulgar and even somewhat scientific" (Robinson, 2005). After 1800, attacks against Jews "tended to be racially motivated" and "perpetrated primarily by the state. The Jewish people were viewed as
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