In the 1880s, the community of Palestinian Jews, known as the Yishuv, amounted to three percent of the total population. Though some of the movementвЂ™s pioneers initially supported a Jewish state in places such as Uganda and Argentina, they eventually called for for building a state in Palestine based on the biblical concept that the Holy Land was promised to the Jews by God. Herzl concluded that the remedy to centuries-old anti-Semitic sentiments and attacks in Europe was the creation of a Jewish state. In 1896, Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl published a pamphlet that came to be seen as the ideological basis for political Zionism вЂ“ Der Judenstaat, or вЂњThe Jewish StateвЂќ. The ideology is based on the belief that Jews are a nation or a race that deserve their own state.ДЇrom 1882 onwards, thousands of Eastern European and Russian Jews began settling in Palestine pushed by the anti-Semitic persecution and pogroms they were facing in the Russian Empire, and the appeal of Zionism. The roots of the Nakba stem from the emergence of Zionism as a political ideology in late 19th-century Eastern Europe. Israel continues to oppress and dispossess Palestinians to this day, albeit in a less explicit way than that during the Nakba. In fact, by May 15, half of the total number of Palestinian refugees had already been forcefully expelled from their country. Though May 15, 1948, became the official day for commemorating the Nakba, armed Zionist groups had launched the process of displacement of Palestinians much earlier. Palestinians in 1948, five months after the creation of Israel, leaving a village in the Galilee

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