Homelands: Conflict in the Middle
East
Part 1 of 3
Focus Questions:
Who are the Jews?How did the diaspora affect the Jews?What is Zionism?Why did the Jews want a homeland?
Who are the Jews?
•Monotheism•People of the Book•Moses and the Israelites
-The Chosen People
What Caused the Jewish Diaspora?
What is the Diaspora?
Israel
Romans destroy the Second Temple in 70 AD
The Western Wall (pictured) is all that remains of the Jewish temple.
Jewish Diaspora
How does this show the Diaspora?
What is Anti-Semitism?
Discrimination against or
prejudice or hostility toward
Jews
Anti-Semitis
mMarc Chagall
‘The White Crucifixion’
1938
Zionism
הרצל זאב בנימיןTheodor Herzl
You are a journalist at the first Zionist
conference in 1897 in Basel
Write TWO questions you
would ask Herzl
Read about the 1st, 6th and 7th World Zionist Conferences in Basel
or from the link on ZoodleWhich countries were
investigated as a possible homeland for the Jews?
Which did they choose, and why?