What year did Zionism begin?

Answer 1

The Zionist movement originally began in 63 BC when the Israelis (Jews) were forced out of Israel by the Romans. Those who stayed were killed. This scattered the Jews around to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Recently, they have been discriminated against, like in the Holocaust, and returned to Israel. They immediately claimed the land and all the Palestinians in it were forced into areas such as the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. This is what has now caused the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Answer 2

Zionism really started in 70 C.E. when Jews lost autonomy in Israel at the hands of the Romans. Since then, Jews longed for their lost homeland but it wasn't until 1882 that they started to return en masse, provoked by antisemitism in many of their host countries and encouraged by the writings of Theodore (Binyamin Ze'ev) Herzl.

Answer 3

Zionism is the belief that the Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel.

Zionism was found in 1895, with Theodor Herzl's book: Der Judenstaat and further discussed in his book: Altneulandin 1902. As a result of these books, Secular European Jews began to actively discuss the possibility of creating a Jewish State.

Answer 4

The Zionist movement that led to the establishment of the state of Israel began in 1897. Zionism itself is that which pertains to Judaism and Jewish history. They are not the same thing.