zionism

Title. What would be the long-term ramifications of a Soviet-aligned Israel on the web of political alliances in the Middle East? How would the nascent Jewish state's alignment with the Soviet Union affect its public image in the West, and how would it reflect on Jewish politics in Israel as...

In our world, the State of Israel is notable not just as the first Jewish state in the Levant in almost 2,000 years but also in how it was formed by a diaspora which returned to its homeland in a process of aliyah, a process in which members of the Jewish diaspora migrated to Palestine as part...

Most are aware that Israeli politics were shaken by the 1977 elections in which the Alignment lost power and Likud formed the government. There were many factors in this (growing participation of Mizrahi voters, anger at the economic performance especially of non state sector companies, disgust...

Settling in unknown lands has always fascinated me. It just sounds so beautiful to arrive in a new land and to have a completely fresh start to build your own society from scratch. Indeed, many nations begun this way, America and Israel come to mind. People who had poor fortunes in their own...

I build upon my "No WWI and WWII effects on Civil Rights and Women's Rights": https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-1960s-successful-us-civil-rights-and-feminist-movements-without-world-war-i-and-world-war-ii.487697/ It is commonly thought here on AH. com that it would be hard for...

While researching something on the Six Day wars, I stumbled upon an illustration of several proposed Jewish states/possible alternate history Israels, and that led to a rabbit hole of proposed Jewish states throughout history. There were so many variations of the idea of giving the Jews their...

Canaanism OTL was a political movement among Jews in the 1930s and 1940s that grew out of Revisionist Zionism. Essentially, it believed that Jews should abandon the Jewish religion (and encourage Palestinian Arabs to abandon Islam) and join together in a secular Hebrew / Canaanite identity...

The Zionist movement lead to an increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine beginning in the late 1800s. How plausible is it that Arab could have been chosen as lingua franca? The original Zionist movement was not particularly religious. An argument for choosing Arab as their language would be...

As the title says, what happens if the Soviets decided to make a Jewish SSR in Central Asia with an idea similar to Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a Soviet Socialist Republic for Jews? Where exactly in Central Asia you reckoned the Jewish SSR will be placed in? Will this Jewish SSR break-away from...

When I think about history, two groups I often think about has having similar stories are Jews and Native Americans. Both groups of people built civilizations before being conquered from the outside by more advanced civilizations, who after many wars, settled their homeland until they were but a...

Author: Lavie Tidhar Title: "Unholy Land" Publication: November, 2018 Page Count: 290 POD(s): Multiple Main POD (mentioned in foreword, so not spoiling anything): 1904. Upon his return from the fact-finding expedition, Nahum Wilbusch recommends to the Zionist Congress the creation of a...

The Seventh Zionist Congress votes for the Uganda proposal, primarily due to greater advertising and more patronage by Theodore Herzl. This was won by a Narrow majority. London, 1906 Henry Campbell-Bannerman gave the plan an OK. Really, this could only benefit the empire, a Protectorate of Neu...

(Preface: I am new to the forum, and I thought it would be fun to join because I've recently been becoming a major alternate history nerd. I love the idea of world-building, and especially building a world based off of an alternate timeline of our own. I've been coming up with this timeline for...

Canaanism was a movement/ideology in the 1940s which sought to create a united Semitic/Canaanite/Hebrew identity among the Jews and the Arabs of Palestine, seperate from religion. Despite its popularity it wasn't especially successful at this, as you may be able to gather from the current Israel...

In the world of Nazi Victories, it is a world without a Israel is very common and something always they. However, why can't they be a Israel? (Not in a High Castle World, but something like Kaiser K TL is the background.) Won't the US and the West would support Israel as a bulwark against the...

A "what if" question about the repercussions on this subject, what does happen when almost all the European Jews have been killed under Nazi Germany? Especially on the topics mentioned below: Zionism. Legitimised in a gradual sense towards the Orthodox Jewish populations since the 1920s, what...