Jews are not Zionists (2)

Blog post description.Zionism is a national political ideology that calls for the establishment of a national homeland for a social religious group, the Jewish people. The Austrian Jew Theodor Herzl is considered the founder or "father" of political Zionism. The Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century amid growing anti-Semitism in Europe. The origins of the Zionist movement are linked in people's minds to the Swiss writer and journalist Theodor Herzl. Despite Herzl's central role in the Zionist project, the invention of the word Zionism goes back to the Swiss journalist Nathan Birnbon, a colleague of Herzl's when he coined this term in 1890. Birnbon emphasized that it meant the political renaissance of the Jews through their collective return to Palestine, or in other words giving political and national content to Judaism. However, Herzl is the father of the Zionist movement and the owner of the Jewish state project, which he spoke about at length in a book he published in 1896, titled “The Jewish State,” in which he laid out effective practical ideas that would have a major contribution to the success of the project later. These ideas revolved around displacing Jews to Palestine, mobilizing for the Jewish cause across the world, and then recruiting Jewish circles behind the idea of a Jewish state. The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ציון, Tzi-yon), a mountain in Jerusalem, widely symbolizing the Land of Israel, Jews believe that the Messiah the Savior will come in the last days, to return his people to the Promised Land, and to rule the world from Mount Zion. The Zionists turned this religious belief into a political program, and they also turned religious slogans and symbols into worldly political slogans and symbols. In the late 19th century, numerous grassroots groups promoted the national resettlement of the Jews in their homeland, as well as the revitalization and cultivation of the Hebrew language throughout eastern Europe. These groups were collectively called the "Lovers of Zion", the first use of the term is attributed to the Austrian Nathan Birnbaum, founder of the Kadimah nationalist Jewish students' movement; he used the term in 1890 in his journal Selbst-Emancipation (Self-Emancipation), itself named almost identically to Leon Pinsker's 1882 book Auto-Emancipation. The movement sought to establish a Jewish nation-state in the land known as Palestine – also known to Jews as the ancient Land of Israel. In 1947, the United Nations recommended dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, and in 1948 the establishment of the State of Israel was declared. However, many Arab residents living in Palestine and its surrounding areas opposed the establishment of the State of Israel; They consider this a denial of the rights of Arabs (regardless of their religion), but those who are loyal to the Zionist movement believe in the importance of protecting and developing the State of Israel as the Jewish nation. The reactions of the Palestinian people to Jewish immigration, land purchases, and Zionist political demands were remarkably uniform and consistent from the beginning. They insisted that Palestine remain an Arab state with the right to self-determination and should not be used to solve the Jewish problem in Europe, and that Jewish national aspirations should not be superseded their rights. And from here the dispute began: the Zionists buy Palestinian lands in one city and displace its people to another city, and the Palestinians object with revolutions and protests, and history is full of those clashes.