HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Socalled, Antisemitism, Arab Nationalism
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Chapter 5: the origins of the arab-israeli conflict (1900-48) Overview of the causes of the conflict: european anti-semitism, the rise of zionism, the emergence of arab nationalism, the quest for arab independence, the ottoman defeat in ww1, the british mandate in palestine, ww2 and the holocaust. It was competing national projects laying claim to the same territory and resources that caused the conflict. Modern zionism the belief that the jews are one people and should have a state of their own. Dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. It was a direct response to the continuing prevalence of anti- semitism in eastern and. In 1881 a series of pogroms swept through southern russia: they dashed any hopes the eastern european jewish intelligentsia had nurtured for reform and assimilation, sparking a wave of emigration, mainly to the united. States: they triggered aspirations for the renewal of jewish national life in the biblical.