: Jewish-Zionist Civil Society Organizations and Their Role in the Establishment of the Zionist Entity in 1948

Abstract

Abstract:

By the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century, the project for a Jewish state had already gained some practical application when the Jewish millionaire Rothschild began supporting Jews by establishing farms in Palestine. This was followed by other financial institutions in several countries around the world, which encouraged agricultural migration as a prelude to seizing Palestinian land. Jewish intellectuals also worked to intensify media propaganda inciting Jewish migration to Palestine through organized campaigns conducted by associations, organizations, civil society institutions, and numerous conferences. These campaigns aimed to realize the dream of Jews—especially those who were miserable, persecuted, and isolated within the walls of the "ghetto" in European countries—of coming to Palestine to work on agricultural land, paving the way for seizing it after the expulsion of its original inhabitants.

The Jewish-Zionist community did not arise naturally in Palestine. Rather, it was gathered from different regions of the world and settled in Palestine to form a unified society by combining some of the values and traditions imported by the Jews with others, ultimately forming a Jewish-Zionist system that would be adopted by all.