He believed that the modern movement to re-establish a Jewish state in the land of Israel had profound theological significance and that the Zionists were agents in a heavenly plan to bring about the messianic era.

Rather, Labor Zionists believed that a Jewish state could only be created through the efforts of the Jewish working class settling in Palestine and constructing a state through the creation of a progressive Jewish society with rural kibbutzim and moshavim and an urban Jewish proletariat.

Jabotinsky believed that basing the movement on a philosophy contrasting with the socialist oriented Labour Zionists would attract the support of the General Zionists.

Theodor Herzl and the early Zionists believed in the creation of a national style of art combining Jewish, Middle Eastern, and European traditions.

It is unclear whether Sperling was a zionist before joining the Jewish Legion, or if his experiences under Zionists such as Trumpeldor influenced him to that end, but it is certain that by the time the war was over, he believed very strongly in the Zionist cause.

In accord with the visions of other socialist Zionists of his time, Arlosoroff believed that ancient Biblical agricultural traditions, such as the " Sabbath Year " and " Year of Jubilee ", could be restored in modern practice alongside institutional parameters established for the new Jewish nation.

Gush Emunim's beliefs were based heavily on the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that secular Zionists, through their conquests of Eretz Israel, had unwittingly brought about the beginning of the Messianic age, which would culminate in the coming of the messiah, which Gush Emunim supporters believe can be hastened through Jewish settlement on land they believe God has allotted to the Jewish people as set forth in the Hebrew Bible.

; 1876: English novelist George Eliot publishes the widely read novel Daniel Deronda, later cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been highly influential in their decision to become Zionists.

The Zionists, he asserted, would never restrict their programme to a part of Palestine, for l ' appétit vient en mangean ( the more you get the more you want ).

* Tunisian writer Tawfiq Al-Madina claimed in the Syrian daily Al-Thawra that Garaudy had " exposed the false the myths of the Zionists and their false propaganda regarding the Holocaust ..."

Male religious Zionists can be recognized by their colorful hand-knitted kippah ( כיפה ) ( yarmulka ) (" skull-cap "), hence their nickname: הכיפות הסרוגות ( Ha-Kippot Ha-Srugot, lit.

The Zionists managed to obtain a schedule of their withdrawal in advance and could launch the operation almost immediately after it.

" Shtu HaAdarim " sung by Esther OfarimThe music of Yemenite Jews was particularly influential in the development of Israeli music because it was seen by early Zionists as a link to their biblical roots.

The Zionists, as always, have proved themselves in time of need as trusted and loyal friends of colonialism ; they shall forever remain so because they would not be able to stand on their own feet for one minute without the constant help and support of the colonial powers.

But according to Zionist mythology, Arab resistance against the Zionist intent to take away their country is itself aggression. The Zionists want to act against the Arabs and, at the same time, prevent the Arabs from reacting in the only way in which, given the divine dignity of the human soul, the Arabs can react in response to the Zionist action against them.

The court placed the blame for the riots on the Zionists, ' whose impatience to achieve their ultimate goal and indiscretion are largely responsible for this unhappy state of feeling ’ and singled out Amin al-Husayni and Ze ' ev Jabotinsky in particular.

Furthermore, it has been pointed out that the Zionists concluded their own agreement with the Nazis just one month later in the Haavara Agreement.

Many Religious Zionists shave their beards and do other actions that are typically not allowed during the mourning period on Yom Ha ' atzmaut ( Israeli Independence Day ).

Many of the pioneers of Hebrew literature were Zionists, and eventually made their way to the Land of Israel.

American Zionists assembled in this Extraordinary Conference reaffirm their unequivocal devotion to the cause of democratic freedom and international justice to which the people of the United States, allied with the other United Nations, have dedicated themselves, and give expression to their faith in the ultimate victory of humanity and justice over lawlessness and brute force.

Zionists increasingly came to hold that this state should be in their historic homeland, which they referred to as the Land of Israel.

A member of SA from RMIT University wrote a controversial email referring to some pro-Israel students at that university as " Zionists ( who ) felt the need to assert their racism and fetish for genocide and mass slaughter of Arab people ".

Religious Jews also disapproved of the Zionists because many were secular Jews or atheists, taking their cue from Marxism.

: Secular Zionists may think they do it for political, national or socialist reasons, but in fact-the actual reason for them coming to resettle in Israel is a religious Jewish spark (" Nitzotz ") in their soul, planted by God.

Although he had strong feelings against the Zionists he was not blinded from how similar many of their situations were to his.

Snezhnevsky returned to Moscow wounded, with members of his delegation putting the blame for their defeat on the " Zionists.

Indeed, they viewed atheistic communism, Jewish Zionism, and Western " Crusader-minded " Christianity as their main enemies, which were responsible for the decadence that led to foreign domination and defeat by Zionists.

There are also those who have a genuine concern and attachment to modern Israel as Christian Zionists and therefore seek to learn more about the subjects related to their beliefs.

Stone shared the Zionists ' aspirations and strongly supported the creation of the State of Israel before it was recognized by the government of the United States.

He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.

Certain early Zionists, and particularly the founders of Kibbutz movement in Israel, had been influenced by Spartan ideals, particularly as a model for education.

" 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.

On August 25, 1933, the Nazis even signed the Haavara Agreement with Zionists to allow German Jews to emigrate to Palestine — by 1939, 60, 000 German Jews had emigrated there.

Preparations for a show trial started in Budapest in 1953 to prove that Raoul Wallenberg had not been dragged off in 1945 to the Soviet Union but was the victim of cosmopolitan Zionists.

News that the Zurich Congress, in creating the Jewish Agency on 11 August., had brought unity among Zionists and the world Jewish community, a measure that would greatly increase Jewish investment in British Palestine, set off alarm bells.

" Lloyd George's law firm Lloyd George, Roberts and Co had been engaged a decade before by the Zionists to work on the British Uganda Programme.

While there is no doubt that it had a great influence through the Scofield Bible, Christian support of the restoration of the Jews preceded the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible ( first published by OUP, 1917 ) for nearly a century, and many prominent Christian Zionists and Christian Zionist organizations such as the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem do not subscribe to dispensationalism.

With the outbreak of World War II, Raziel and Jabotinsky declared an unconditional ceasefire against the British, as Britain and the Zionists had a common enemy in Germany.

The Zionist Organization was roughly composed of General Zionists, who were in the majority, followers of Jabotinsky, who came in a close second, and Labour Zionists, led by David Ben-Gurion, who comprised a minority yet had much influence where it mattered, in the Yishuv.

Mizrachi had a separate trade union wing, founded in 1921, Hapoel HaMizrachi, which represented religious Jews in the Histadrut and tried to attract religious Labor Zionists.

Historian Robert Wistrich addressed the issue in a 1984 lecture delivered in the home of Israeli President Chaim Herzog, in which he argued that a " new anti-Semitic anti-Zionism " was emerging, distinguishing features of which were the equation of Zionism with Nazism and the belief that Zionists had actively collaborated with Nazis during World War II.

An April 2005 NATO workshop heard that Myatt had called on " all enemies of the Zionists to embrace the Jihad " against Jews and the United States.

Early Zionists, and particularly the founders of Kibbutz movement in Israel, had been influenced by Spartan ideals, and drew on the Spartan model in particular when disparaging the materialistic values they associated with the disapora communities they had left.

By 1938, some 450, 000 of about 900, 000 German Jews had fled Germany, mostly to British Mandate Palestine, though the British had a white paper barring Jews from Palestine during the war, ( a number which also included over 50, 000 German Jews who had taken advantage of the Haavara, or " Transfer " Agreement between German Zionists and the Nazis ), but British immigration quotas prevented many from migrating.

According to Gert Hekma, Zionists spread a rumour he had been killed by Arabs because of his sexual relations with Arab boys.