Zionism

ALIYAH AND AGGRESSION IN MANDATE PALESTINE

ALIYAH AND AGGRESSION IN MANDATE PALESTINE

Upheaval in the nations in the wake of World War I combined with the Balfour Declaration fuels a Third Aliyah to the Eretz Yisrael. But as Jews begin to reclaim their ancestral land and build the institutions of a modern society, an ancient antagonism begins to resurface with some of their new neighbors, leading to violent pogroms in 1920-21.