Zionism

Notice: If you're just here to bash Zionism or start a debate instead of Polcompball, please leave Zionism, also called Jewish Nationalism is a Nationalist ideology that believes in Jewish self determination in part of their ancestral homeland.

Zionism was proposed as a solution to Anti-Semitism, and was also connected to the nationalist and anti-colonialist movements of the 1800s. The idea is that a way to escape persecution from countries within the diaspora was to create a land that was specifically Jewish that would be safe for Jews and where Judaism could be practiced freely. Modern Zionism (Zionism as used above) is usually connected to allowing Jews to return to the land of Israel as their indigenous home and as a religious and cultural center.

History
Modern Political Zionism became mainstream in the late 1800s with Theodor Herzl publishing his book: Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) and later Altneuland (The Old New Land), but the Jewish sentiment of returning to Zion has existed far longer, since the land of Israel was taken over by the Roman Empire. Cultural Zionism, the idea of growing the Hebrew language and Jewish religion and culture inside the diaspora, flourished alongside it.

In 1917, during the First World War, Britain was in dire need of support, so they turned to the Jewish community which had seen the Ottoman genocide of Armenians, faced restrictions under Ottoman rule, and had desires of a Jewish state both in Israel and the Diaspora. To bring up support (and because of the Zionist beliefs of some members of the government, such as Winston Churchill) they created the Balfour Declaration which was a public statement promising a homeland for Jews located in the region of Palestine, which at the time was under the  Ottoman Empire's rule. Though the British did not end up always supporting Zionism from then on, the promise provided a new legal basis for Israel to return alongside concepts such as nations right to self-determination.

Personality and Behaviour
Zionism is usually portrayed as a mixture of Jewish stereotypes, meaning he likes behind conspiracy, money, hats and uttering Yiddish phrases.

Stylistic Notes

 * Literally just Israelcube from Polandball.
 * Likes to call other non-cubes "Goy", "Goyim", or "Gentiles"

How to Draw

 * 1) Draw a cube,
 * 2) Draw two blue horizontal lines at the top and base of the cube,
 * 3) Draw a blue Star of David (✡︎) in the centre,
 * 4) Colour the rest of the cube white,
 * 5) Draw the eyes, and you're done!
 * 6) (Optional) Draw a Kippah (skullcap)

Friends

 * [[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - Calls me his greatest ally. I help him out a lot.
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism -Yay!
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - You rightfully recognized Jerusalem as my capital.
 * [[File:Greez.png]] Green Zionism - We must protect our homeland's environment.
 * [[File:Relzion.png]] Religious Zionism - My more religious self.
 * [[File:Labzion.png]] Labour Zionism - My socialist self.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Castro.png]] Castroism - Just make up your mind!
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Let my Refusniks go!
 * [[File:Jnaz.png]] Jewish-Nazism - I can't hate you, I just feel sorry.
 * [[File:Monarch.png]] Monarchism - Took them awhile to finally let my people go! But King David was based.
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism- Good business partner but also suspiciously Antisemitic.
 * [[File:JewTheo.png]] Jewish Theocracy - I think you have some good ideas, but let Secular Zionism be part of us too.
 * [[File:Kahan.png]] Kahanism - You're a bit extreme, hence why our country banned you.
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Every exiled ethnicity has the right to live in their sovereign homeland, I just wish ARABIAN nationalists would stop using you to justify me not existing, especially when most of us (and Israel) gave Jordanians offer Palestinians their own state (even though Judea and Samaria is important to us)
 * [[File:Anjew.png]] Jewish Anarchism - State-haters! Many of you are OK with Jewish communities in Eretz Yisrael though, and you are Jews....
 * [[File:Bundis.png]] Bundism - My weird secular, Marxist, Yiddish-speaking counterpart who prefers to stay in a minority. But you're a Jew who isn't trying to kill us, so I wish you the best.

Enemies

 * [[File:Absoc.png]] Arab Socialism - Tried to destroy me but failed!
 * [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'athism - You're [[File:Absoc.png]] him but worse.
 * [[File:Muslim_2.png]] Islamic Theocracy - The greatest enemy of Zionism. You are all terrorists that want to commit another Holocaust!!1!
 * [[File:Caesar.png]] Caesarism - YOU WERE THE ONE WHO EXPELLED ALL OF US FROM OUR KINGDOM IN THE FIRST PLACE, FUCK YOU!
 * [[File:Reactsoc.png]] Reactionary Socialism - STOP CALLING US CHRIST-KILLERS! It was [[File:Caesar.png]] him, you antisemites! And we're not all greedy.
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - I don't think I really need to explain him. Stop making up fake quotes from the Talmud about goys as animals (like you did on this wiki) when we hold all life sacred as our highest value.
 * [[File:Imp.png]] Old Imperialism - The Roman Imperialists took us from our homeland. And the Arabic imperialists not only colonized is with people from Arabia, but attack us as imperialist because we support America and want to exist.
 * [[File:Blackzio.png]] Black Zionism - Racist and antisemitic bastard child of mine. And is not nice to Ethiopian Jews.
 * [[File:Kak-Dunce.png]] מְטוּפָּשׁ - Literally an idiot, "the rule of the worst". Un-Talmudic.

Articles

 * Modern Zionism
 * Zionism

Wikipedia (definition of a bad source on this topic because of flame wars)

 * Zionism
 * Theodor Herzl
 * Israel

Concepts

 * Jewish and democratic state
 * Homeland for the Jewish people
 * Aliyah

Types

 * General Zionism
 * [[File:Greez.png]] Green Zionism
 * [[File:CultZion.png]] Cultural Zionism
 * [[File:Relzion.png]] Religious Zionism
 * [[File:Blackzio.png]] Black Zionism
 * [[File:LibZion.png]] Liberal Zionism
 * [[File:Labzion.png]] Labour Zionism
 * [[File:Revzion.png]] Revisionist Zionism
 * [[File:ChristZion.png]] Christian Zionism
 * Political Zionism
 * Reform Zionism
 * Synthetic Zionism
 * [[File:IslamZion.png]] Muslim Zionism
 * Bibism

Gallery
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