Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion) () was a

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, founded in 1906 in Ottoman

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. Its founders belonged to a group of Jewish settlers, that had taken part in self-defense during the

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pogrom. It was the Palestinian branch of the international

Poale Zion Poale Zion (, also romanized ''Poalei Tziyon'' or ''Poaley Syjon'', meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire at about the turn of the 20th c ...

movement. The party joined the

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in 1915. It was invited to join the International in February 1915, on the initiative of Émile Vandervelde, at a conference held in London (in which the Belgian, French, British and Russian labour parties participated). The meeting of the parties from the Central Power countries, held in

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in April 1915 did not object to the affiliation of the party.Schenhav, Mordechaï.
Le socialisme international et l'État juif (1891-1973)
'. Paris: Connaissances et Savoirs, 2009. p. 53

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