POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Ottoman Empire, Dreyfus Affair, Turkification
28 Nov 2012
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Zionism: national movement to return to homeland, alternative to assimilation, from feeling of persecution, birnbalm created the term and wrote about it in his university newspaper. Ended up leaving the movement and opting for assimilation: hertzel born in budapest, not religious jew, grew up secular published in 1895, motivated by dreyfus affair, 1897 first zionist conference. Having all jews share a stronger national identity/consciousness: challenges: Only post-wwi era where britain had some incentive to support: changing definition. Palestinian identity: 1800"s part of ottoman empire, turkey was becoming more nationalistic turkification of the ottoman empire, started more arab than palestinian in response to what was happening in turkey, challenges: No incentive for outside states to support: significance in early days of conflict: Maybe no official palestinian state & nationality but there were people who lived there with a culture etc.
