Herzl

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Herzl Political Zionism
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Der Judenstaat (The Jew state)

• The Jews are a separate Nation
• Anti-Semitism causes instability and riots in
  European countries
• The solution is to have a Jewish state
• The Nations of the world will help the Jews, for
  their own benefit, to create an independent state
• The Jews should organize as a Nation, elect a
  government and have financial resources.

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Herzls activities and contribution

• Shocked by the Dreyfus affair - 1895
• Publishing The Jewish State 1896
• The first Zionist congress Basel 1897 A
  Jewish homeland, openly recognized, legally
  secured
• Negotiation and meeting with the German Kaiser,
  Wilhelm II, in Jerusalem 1898
• Meeting with the Ottoman Sultan 1901
• The British option Sinai and Cyprus the
  Al-Arish commission - 1902
• The Uganda Crisis 1903
• At the age of 44, the death of Herzl - 1904

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Herzls opponents and critics in the Zionist
movement

• Achad Haam Its not the Jews problem but the
  Judaism problem Spiritual and cultural Zionism
• The democratic fraction Zionism should focus
  more on educational mission and actual Jewish
  existence
• One person movement
• Altneuland, a Novel by Herzl, describing future
  Jewish society in Palestine, suffered from lack
  of Jewish spirit