palestinism

Support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine.

A worldview that reflects the life and values of the ancient Jewish people from the Palestinian region as described in the bible.

In the north of Europe and America—especially in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries, in all Germanic and in some measure also in Celtic ones—Palestinism has permeated so far that one fancies himself to be among Jews.

What then? Must we Jews disappear? What an insult to me and those I love and cherish! Were the Jewish nationalists right with their Palestinism, which had its logic and consistency? So, the balance rose and fell, with assimilation on one scale and Palestinism on the other, until an experience in February, 1884, when assimilation was hurled off the balance.

A belief in the unique identity of the Arabic tribes from the Palestinian region and their consequent right to a national identity.

The convenience and appropriateness of the constitution of self-government along confessional lines enabled the British administration to sustain the illusion of Palestinism for some time.

Perhaps doing so would involve too painful an encounter with Zionism’s political counterpart—what we might call “Palestinism”: the belief that the Arab population originating in the area of the Palestine mandate is distinct from other Arab groups, with a right to its own nation-state in that territory.⁷