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Parent topics
- Israel [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Judaism [r]: Monotheistic religion of the Jewish people based on the Torah. [e]
- Antisemitism [r]: In basic usage, hostility against, or persecution of, Jews, rather than ethnically Semitic people in general, or non-Semitic Jews [e]
- Diaspora [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Arab-Israeli Conflict [r]: Politics, insurgency, terrorism, and counterinsurgency between the State of Israel and the population of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza [e]
- Israel-Palestine Conflict [r]: Politics, insurgency, terrorism, and counterinsurgency between the State of Israel and the population of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza [e]
- One-state solution [r]: A solution to the Israel-Palestine Conflict that combines the two entities into one country with a mutually agreed government [e]
- Two-state solution [r]: Resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by creating distinct, sovereign Israeli and Palestinian states, with adjustments of current borders [e]
- Israel-Palestine Conflict [r]: Politics, insurgency, terrorism, and counterinsurgency between the State of Israel and the population of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza [e]
- Jerusalem [r]: A city in the Middle East, with great religious significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; divided by the United Nations partition of the British Mandate of Palestine but captured by Israel in 1967; governed by State of Israel and claimed as its capital; Palestinian Authority claims East Jerusalem as its capital; [e]
Historic Zionism
- 1922 British White Paper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Balfour Declaration [r]: A 1917 declaration by the British Foreign Secretary stating that U.K. government, in principle, endorsed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine [e]
- David Ben-Gurion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nathan Birnbaum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louis D. Brandeis [r]: (1856-1941) A highly influential American lawyer and theorist of Antitrust during the Progressive Era. [e]
- Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
- Theodor Herzl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Haganah [r]: Add brief definition or description
- McMahon-Hussein Correspondence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sykes-Picot Agreement [r]: A 1916 secret agreement between France and Great Britain, with the consent of Russia, on the disposition of territories in the Ottoman Empire [e]
- Chaim Weizmann [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orde Wingate [r]: Add brief definition or description
Modern Zionism
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee [r]: Describing itself as "America's Pro-Israel Lobby", one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in the United States [e]
- Caroline Glick [r]: Senior Fellow on the Middle East, Center for Security Policy; Hasbara speakers bureau; contributing editor, The Jerusalem Post; contributor, Family Security Matters; Member of Oslo Negotiating Team; Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor (1997-1998) [e]
- Martin Indyk [r]: acting vice president, director of Foreign Policy, and Director of the Saban Institute for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; past director of research for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; U.S. ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs in the Clinton Administration; supports a two-state settlement [e]
- Dennis Ross [r]: Special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director of the Central Region on the National Security Council staff, who has served in the Carter, George W. Bush, Reagan and Clinton Administrations; former Ziegler Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Board of Editors, Middle East Quarterly [e]
- Richard Perle [r]: An American political scientist who has been an important advisor and facilitator, rather than executive, for U.S. foreign policy and is associated with neoconservatism [e]
- Daniel Pipes [r]: Director of the Middle East Forum; publisher, Middle East Quarterly and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; member, Committee on the Present Danger; book author and columnist, director 1986-1983, Foreign Policy Research Institute; board member, United States Institute of Peace; son of Soviet specialist Richard Pipes; Hasbara speakers bureau; "favorite columnist", American Conservative Union [e]
- Shalem Center [r]: An Israeli organization, located in Jerusalem, engaged in publishing, sponsoring research both to write books and analyses, graduate education, and planning the first liberal arts college in Israel [e]
- Natan Sharansky [r]: A Soviet emigre to Israel who was active in human rights in the Soviet Union, and became active in Israeli politics; the new head of the Jewish Agency [e]}
- Christian Zionism [r]: A Christian belief that it is essential for the Jewish people to return to an undivided Israel, before Jesus Christ will return in Jerusalem; basis for opposition to two-state solutions by some American religious conservatives [e]
- Christians United For Israel [r]: An evangelical Christian Zionist organization committed to support a Jewish homeland in Israel, headed by John Hagee; expansion of Israeli territory into a Greater Israel defined by Biblical ideas [e]
- Gary Bauer [r]: American social conservative, heading the interest group, American Values; 2000 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination; board member of Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Christian Zionist on the board of Christians United For Israel [e]
- John Hagee [r]: An evangelical Christian Zionist minister who heads Christians United For Israel; Founder and Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Church; President and CEO, John Hagee Ministries [e]
- Zionist Organization of America [r]: The oldest Zionist organization in the United States, who supports a one-state solution based on a historic and Biblical right of the Jewish people to have a state on both sides of the Jordan River; they regard a Palestinian state as dangerous [e]
Criticism
Other related topics
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy [r]: A controversial book by two American academics, suggesting that the relationship between the United States and Israel is dysfunctional, but affected by a loose but politically powerful set of interest groups in both countries [e]
- Jewish American [r]: A term for United States citizens of Jewish, by birth or conversion, or who identify with Jewish culture or ethnicity whether or not they are religiously Jewish; may or may not support Zionism [e]
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda [r]: (1858-1922) Zionist journalist and lexicographer, the single person most responsible for the rebirth of Hebrew as a living language. [e]
- Erich Mendelsohn [r]: (1887 – 1953), German Jewish architect, known for the 'expressionist' buildings he made during the Weimar republic. [e]
- Hebrew language [r]: A semitic language used by ancient Israelites and Jewish communities, and revived as a modern language by Israeli Jews. [e]
- Ottoman Empire [r]: The Turkish state which controlled much of the Middle East from the 15th century to 1923. [e]
