Theodorus Herzl fuit motus hodierni Sionismi conditor. In Der Judenstaat , cuius libello anno 1896 edito, futuram civitatem Iudaicum saeculo vicensimo condituram proposuit.
Sionismus (Hebraice צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut, ex Sione , nomine antiquo regionis Hierosolymorum ) est ideologia [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] et motus nationalisticus [ 4] [ 5] inter Iudaeos in regionem Palestinam ad civitatem sui iuris creandam institutus. Causa Sionismi erat persecutio in diaspora , quae Iudaeis crebro ac variis in regionibus illata est.
↑ Bernardus Lewis , Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, ISBN 978-0-393-24556-1 ), 20.
↑ Ian S. Lustick, "Zionist Ideology and Its Discontents: A Research Note," Israel Studies Forum 19, no. 1 (autumnus 2003): 98-103: "Zionism was and is a serious ideology and deserves to be treated as such" (p. 98).
↑ Gadi Taub, "Zionism," in Gregory Claeys, Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (Sage CQ Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-452-23415-1 ), 869-872: "Zionism is an ideology that seeks to apply the universal principle of self-determination to the Jewish people" (p. 869).
↑ Medding, P. Y. (1995). Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity: Jews and Politics in a Changing World . Studies in Contemporary Jewry. OUP USA/Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-510331-1
↑ Gans, Chaim (1 Iulii 2008 ). A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State . Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199867172