Journal of Islamicjerusalem Studies

Yazarlar: ZİYA POLAT

Konular:Tarih

Anahtar Kelimeler:Ottoman State,Abdulhamid II,Zionism,Palestine,Jewish Immigration,Palestine

Özet: The Jewish immigration to Palestine that took place in the Ottoman period was a non-organic migration. Racist movements that after the French Revolution had spread to the entire world also affected the Jews. Jews who from the time when they had been sent into exile had claimed that this had been promoted to them by God, dreamed of a return to Palestine and of the creation of a Jewish state there. In order to realise these dreams nationalist/racist Jews who wished to profit from the chaotic context in the 19th century and the weaknesses of the Ottomans united and organised the economic and political powers that they possessed under the name of Zionist movement. The Zionist leaders who set out to establish a Zionist state in Palestine increased their support by benefiting from the nationalist and racist movements that were predominant in the public opinion of the word. The Zionists, thinking that they could separate land from the Ottoman Empire, which had been weakened as a result of that, offered a memorandum to the Ottoman government through Laurence Oliphant in the hope that they would be able to establish a Zionist colony in Belka province. The article first offers a mentality analysis in the framework of the terms Zionist and Zionism, and then discusses how in the process moving towards the memorandum the Ottomans perceived Zionism and how the memorandum influenced this perception. 

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