How did European anti-Semitism lead to Theodore Herzl's embrace of the Zionist movement?
What will be an ideal response?
Herzl argued that despite the assimilation of many Jews in Europe and subordination of religious identification, Jews in Europe would never be safe until they had their own country. He specifically looked at the Dreyfus Affair in France (the trial and wrongful persecution of a French Jewish officer), saw crowds in the streets demonstrating against Jews, and argued that being Jewish was not a religious identification, but a national one. He saw the existence of many anti-minority groups (not only anti-Semitic) such as Dmowsky's as well as the rising forces of integral nationalism, belief in new racial theories (scientific racism), and continual attacks on Jews across Europe, as being an undeniable force that would continue until dire circumstances arose. The pogroms in Russia and regions of the Pale reinforced this fear for Jewish safety. Only when Jews had their own homeland, as a nationality as well as religion, would there be safety.
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