James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

" Masalha accused Morris of treating the issue as " a debate amongst Zionists which has little to do with the Palestinians themselves ", and of ignoring the long history that the idea of " transfer " ( removal of the Palestinians ) had among Zionist leaders.

This use of " Boaz " became obsolete in later stages of Zionist and Israeli history, and is hardly remembered today.

Israeli culture also reflects Jewish history in the diaspora, especially the ideology of the Zionist movement beginning in the late 19th century.

In 1996, the Aryan Nations posted on its website an " Aryan Declaration of Independence, in which we find that " the history of the present Zionist Occupied Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ... having a direct object — the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.

According to Avi Shlaim, " purity of arms " is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version of the 1948 war ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

Referring to the study performed in 2007 by Saleh Abd al-Jawad, Zionist Massacres: the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem in the 1948 War, she writes that the massacres engaged Palestinian historians ' concerns relatively late, but that when ' Palestinians began to write their history, the issue of massacres inevitably became one of the relevant factors in accounting for the mass exodus.

" He stated the American people were unaware of " Zionism ’ s history, its racist foundation, its colonialist nature, and the systematic brutality of its daily dealings with the indigenous people of Palestine .” In 2003 Ahmad told Reason magazine that the Zionist movement had socialist and fascist wings, neither supportive of classical liberalism and that Israel today is “ characterized mostly as a socialist, militarist and racist entity ,” which he held are incompatible with “ libertarian ideals .”

Righteous Victims: A history of the Zionist – Arab Conflict, 1881 – 2001 is based largely on secondary works and gives a synthesis of existing research on the various subjects and periods covered.

Morris responds that Karsh's article is a " mélange of distortions, half-truths, and plain lies that vividly demonstrates his profound ignorance of both the source material ( his piece contains more than fifty footnotes but is based almost entirely on references to and quotations from secondary works, many of them of dubious value ) and the history of the Zionist – Arab conflict.

In Zionist history, the different waves of aliyah, beginning with the arrival of the Biluim from Russia in 1882, are categorized by date and the country of origin of the immigrants.

As Professor Porath says, Neither historiography nor the Zionist cause itself gains anything from mythologizing history.

* Benzion Netanyahu ( 1910 – 2012 ), scholar of Jewish history, Zionist activist, professor emeritus of Cornell University, author of The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain and other books

The thesis of 1982 doctoral dissertation of Mahmoud Abbas, a co-founder of Fatah and one of the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization who earned his Ph. D. in history at the Oriental College in Moscow, was " The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement ".

Hashomer Hatzair came into being as a result of the merger of two groups, Hashomer (" The Guard ") a Zionist scouting group, and Ze ' irei Zion (" The Youth of Zion ") which was an ideological circle that studied Zionism, socialism and Jewish history.

Once a huge movement inside the large Argentinian Jewish Community, Hashomer Hatzair Argentina suffered from decay common to all Zionist youth movements in Argentina during the last decades, as well as several military dictatorships in the country's history that directly or indirectly led to the closure of several of its kenim.

According to Beinin, this perspective has been " consecrated " as " the normative Zionist interpretation of the history of Jews in Egypt.

The history of Zionism demonstrates the extent to which the urge to create a new society, embodying the universal values of democracy and social justice, was inherent in the Zionist movement and responsible for its progress in adverse conditions.

In contrast to the Communist Party and the Zionist Left, Matzpen insisted that the 1967 occupation was but one stage in the long history of Zionist settlement, and reversing it would be a necessary but not sufficient condition for overall solution to the problems of the Middle East.

* Benzion Netanyahu ( 1910-2012 ), Zionist, scholar of Jewish history, and father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Vishniac was very interested in history, especially that of his ancestors, and strongly attached to his Jewish roots ; he was a Zionist later in life.

In 1902, a study of the growth of the orange industry by Zionist officials outlined the different Arab owners and their primary export markets as England, Turkey, Egypt and Austria-Hungary.

In his writing, Brenner praised the Zionist endeavor, but also contradicted himself, contending that the Land of Israel was just another diaspora and no different from other diasporas.

In addition early in the war years, he and others established the American Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, to run Zionist affairs on behalf of the worldwide Zionist Organization, which had been rendered largely impotent because its members were divided by allegiance to the different sides in the conflict.

Post-Zionism is a term associated with a variety of perceptions and different positions, behind which stands criticism of the core beliefs of Zionist groups.

Other organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Zionist Organization of America, Americans for a safe Israel, B ' nai B ' rith and Agudath Israel represent different segments of the American Jewish community on a variety of issues.

Activists such as the Iraq-born Ella Shohat that an elite which developed in the early 20th Century, out of the earlier-arrived Zionist Pioneers of the Second and Third Aliyas ( immigration waves )-and who gained a dominant position in the Yishuv ( pre-state community ) since the 1930s-had formulated a new Hebrew culture, based on the values of Socialist Zionism, and imposed it on all later arrivals, at the cost of suppressing and erasing these later immigrants ' original culture.

This has been attested to by his fellow refuseniks, such as Natan Sharansky: " In May 1988 he founded the Zionist Forum, in preparation for the future waves of Aliyah from the Soviet Union, and based its activity on the database formed by former Refusenik Yosef Mendelevitch.

* During the first immigration waves the emigration from Israel was a great cause for pessimism in regards the success of the Zionist enterprise.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

A year later, Herzl founded the Zionist Organization ( ZO ), which at its first congress, " called for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law ".

Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, the principal Zionist leaders based in London, had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as " the " Jewish national home.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

In 1897, the Zionist Organisation was founded and the First Zionist Congress proclaimed its aim " to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.

In 1908 the Zionist Organisation set up the Palestine Bureau ( also known as the " Eretz Israel Office ") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy in Palestine.

In 1921, the Zionist Commission was granted official status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine in Article 4 of the Mandate.

The Jewish Agency soon operated as an arm of the Zionist leadership.

Chaim Weizmann was the leader of both the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency until 1929.

In July 1947 the UNSCOP visited Palestine and met with Jewish and Zionist delegations.

Thanks to funds raised by Golda Meir from sympathisers in the United States, and Stalin's decision to support the Zionist cause, the Jewish representatives of Palestine were able to sign very important armament contracts in the East.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

The possibility of a Jewish homeland in Palestine had been a goal of Zionist organizations since the late 19th century.

During World War I, Zionist volunteers fought in the Jewish Legion of the British Army against the Ottomans because they expected the British would be less opposed to the Zionist project than the Ottoman authorities.

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

and the Jewish society in the British Mandate Palestine generally disapproved and denounced violent attacks both on grounds moral rejection and political disagreement, stressing that terrorism is counter-productive in the Zionist quest for Jewish self-determination.

* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.