POL345Y1 Lecture Notes - Nachman Syrkin, Revisionist Zionism, Labor Zionism
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Lecture 4 the intellectual origins of the jewish state 27/09/11. The ideas that started in the beginning of the 20th century now exist in. In general terms, there are four kinds of zionism that left their mark in the social construction of israel. Political and liberal zionism: theodore herzl and asher ginsberg (ahad. Labour/socialist zionism: nachman syrkin, ben borochov, aharon d. Religious zionism rabbi avraham isaax hacohen kook. Political and liberal zionism as well as socialist zionism conceived of identity as a type of self determination as it freed itself from exile and religion. Since 1977, there was a movement towards the revisionist and religious type of zionism the entire land of israel belong to jews and that non-jews that inhabit the land do not have any rights. Thus, there is a conflict between the two sides to the latter, self- determination is not enough and to the former, exclusivity might jeopardise their right to stay.
