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Pan-Semitism
Pan-Semitism is a pan-nationalist ideology that espouses the unification of Semitic-speaking peoples, which mostly included Arabs and Jews, but also Syriac Christians (Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arameans, Syriacs), Habeshas, Samaritans, Maltese and Mandaeans. History Pan-Semitism was formed as an idealistic movement which advocated for a union between Arabs and Jews, with Semitic identity being the unifying factor. During the 1920s, Pan-Semitic ideologues further developed Pan-Semitism as a solution for the Arab-Jewish tensions in Mandatory Palestine. They also cited historic events, such as the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain being under Al-Andalus. Different variations of Pan-Semitism also emerged. Pan-Semitism was unpopular among both Arabs and Jews and eventually declined. Some continued to espouse Pan-Semitism even after its decline. Pan-Semitism also saw Islam and Judaism as closely related religions which could coexist even without secularism, and hailed Moses, Jesus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan-nationalism
Pan-nationalism () in the social sciences includes forms of nationalism that aim to transcend (overcome, expand) traditional boundaries of basic or historical national identities in order to create a "higher" pan-national (all-inclusive) identity, based on various common denominators. Pan-nationalism be a variant of all common forms of nationalism. In relation to classical state nationalism, pan-nationalism manifests itself through various political movements that advocate the formation of "higher" (pan-national) forms of political identity, based on a regional or continental grouping of national states, such as Pan-Americanism, Pan-Africanism, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Iranism, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Semitism, and Pan-Slavism. In terms of ethnic nationalism, pan-nationalism can also manifest itself through specific ethnic movements that advocate setting up "higher" (pan-national) forms of common identity that are based on ethnic grouping (for example: Pan-Germanism or Pan-Slavism). Other for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semitic Action
Semitic Action (, ''HaPeulah Hashemit'') was a small Israeli political group of the 1950s and 1960s which sought the creation of a regional federation encompassing Israel and its Arab neighbors. The same name is used by a new group formed in 2011 with broadly similar goals. Original group Created in 1956, the group's key members were Uri Avnery, Natan Yellin-Mor, and Boaz Evron, with other members including Maxim Ghilan, Shalom Cohen, and Amos Kenan. Joel Beinin describes the group as "a political expression of the Canaanite movement" which "advocated that Hebrew-speaking Israelis cut their ties with the Jewish diaspora and integrate into the Middle East as natives of the region on the basis of an anticolonialist alliance with its indigenous Arab inhabitants."Beinin, Joel (1998)''The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora'' University of California Press. pp. 166 In 1958 the group published a platform, titled "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canaanism
Canaanism was a cultural and ideological movement founded in 1939, reaching its peak among the Jews of Mandatory Palestine during the 1940s. It has had a significant effect on the course of Israeli art, literature and spiritual and political thought. Its adherents were called Canaanites (). The movement's original name was the Council for the Coalition of Hebrew Youth () or less formally, the Young Hebrews; ''Canaanism'' was originally a pejorative term. It grew out of Revisionist Zionism and had roots in European extreme right-wing movements, particularly Italian fascism. Most of its members were part of the Irgun or Lehi.Kuzar 13 Canaanism never had more than around two dozen registered members, but because most of them were influential intellectuals and artists, the movement had an influence which went far beyond its size.Kuzar 197 Its members believed that much of the Middle East had been a Hebrew-speaking civilization in antiquity.Kuzar 12 Kuzar also says they hoped to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
