This is the situation early Zionists were faced with: both a long history of persecution and an immediate crisis. Theodore Herzl reasoned that whilst anti-Semitism showed no signs of abating in Russia, it was also likely to increase in the West, due to the influx of Jewish refugees. Integration had been tried for over a thousand years and failed. The only solution to the Jewish problem was therefore a Jewish state.

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The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand: https://tinyurl.com/4kykxhdj

Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY

The Jewish State, by Theodore Herzl:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-jewish-state-quot-theodor-herzl