The History of Anti-Semitism and the State of Israel – Global Research

In 1896, the Viennese-born journalist Theodor Herzl published an influential political treatise entitled Der Judenstaat, which argued that the only way to defend Jews from anti-Semitism would be the establishment of an independent Jewish state. Herzl then convened the first Zionist Congress in Switzerland, in 1897, at which the then Ottoman-controlled Palestine was chosen as the …