Patriotism Vs Zionism

These two significant developments of Middle Easterner patriotism and Zionism had been building up altogether since the nineteenth century with the objectives of accomplishing 'emancipation and self-determination', both advancing around “the concepts of identity, nationhood, history, religion and culture”. The Exemplary Zionist thought began in the “deep-rooted biblical tradition” an announced “land of Israel” where Jewish freedom would be restored . In any case, it was within the setting of hundreds of years of European anti- Semitism and mistreatment that political Zionism emerged. The 'ideological foundation’ depended on the following: ‘the Jewish people constituted a nation and this nationhood needed to be affirmed; assimilation was rejected’