1911 Encyclopedia Britannica explains how Zionism "is the lineal heir" to the age-old Jewish attachment to Israel

From Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition:ZIONISM. One of the most interesting results of the anti. Semitic agitation  has been a strong revival of the national spirit among the Jews in a political form. To this movement the name Zionism has been given. In the same way that anti-Semitism differs from the Jew-hatred of the early and middle ages, Zionism differs from previous...

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902, recognized that Zionism was a historic part of Judaism

From the 1902 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica:Less than a decade after the term was coined, the writer - Lucien Wolf - recognized clearly that modern Zionism was a direct "lineal heir" to the longtime Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel since the Jewish nation's first exile.Today's scholars find such an idea anathema, because it would mean that the Jews have a historic...

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