Zionism
All our coverage of zionism.
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowHebron, 24 August 1929: the massacre that uprooted a four-century-old Jewish community
What happened in Hebron in August 1929? This account traces the massacre of Jewish residents, the help given by Arab neighbours and the evacuation of the survivors.
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowHow the Soviet Union helped bring Israel into being: Gromyko at the UN, Czech arms and a break in relations
From the UN vote on the partition of Palestine to arms deliveries from Czechoslovakia, how did the Soviet Union put its support for Israel into practice in 1947 and 1948?
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowThe Doctors’ Plot: antisemitism in Stalin’s final years, 1948–1953
On 13 January 1953, Pravda published false accusations against nine doctors. The Soviet news agency TASS implicated the Joint, an American Jewish organisation.
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowWhere does the name Palestine come from? A word’s history, from the Philistines to the PLO
The Philistines, Herodotus, the caliphs, the Ottomans, the British Mandate and the PLO. What has “Palestine” meant over the centuries, and what can a name prove?