First Aliyah

Many of them come to the United States, and many of them start going to Israel.

And this foments a huge wave of Aliyah, what they call the first Aliyah.

If you go, there is a beautiful town in Israel.

I don't wanna spend too much time on this museum, but just in Mar Mokom, if you have extra time, there is an Aliyah Museum in Zichron Yaakov.

Like they were hungry, these people.

They were, they were running away from being murdered.

So this is the first Aliyah.

Then on the heels of this, in the mid 1890s, we have the famous French episode with Dreyfus.

I don't think that people hanging around in Kibbutzim were anything to do with the occupation of the Gaza Strip, for example.

I mean, the Kibbutzim predate the creation of the State of Israel for quite a while, right? People like First Aliyah didn't do so necessarily with the intention of stealing the land of Palestinians.

So to be there and, you know, choosing the one moment where you're going to take to be able to protest a mayor who has shown, at the very least, a great willing to bring the interests of the Palestinians to the public realm, someone who gets, again, as you've seen, admonished as some kind of jihadist merely for treating Palestinians like people, I don't think you're necessarily doing the best thing for Palestinians by saying that he's sold out his people by recognising that maybe the bloodshed should end on many sides and there should be justice for Palestinians.

Now, when it comes for the morality...

In response, Jewish movements such as Chovevei Tzion, meaning Lovers of Zion, began organizing immigration to Ottoman-controlled Palestine.

Beginning in eighteen eighty-two, the wave known as the First Aliyah brought approximately thirty-five thousand Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe, alongside immigrants from Yemen.

They joined Jewish communities already living in the land and established agricultural settlements.

Some came fleeing persecution.

then there is this marker, but what is also really fascinating is in the timeline of history, there's another story that's happening just very quickly after Mark Twain makes this... writes in a sense abroad and is published all over the world.

And in 1885, roundabouts 1885, there is what is widely considered what is called the first Aliyah or Aliyah, which in Hebrew literally means to ascend.

But in the traditional or cultural sense, it means to go from outside of Israel and immigrate to Israel and make Israel your home.

That's that is what Aliyah is if you are Jewish.