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Theodor Herzl envisioned his “New Society” as a polity both Jewish and democratic, a radically egalitarian view in his time, and one that remains a bedrock of contemporary Israeli political thought. This view thought of Jewish sovereignty in a positive and defensive way: as the natural right of Jews to self-government and thus part of the process of normalizing Jewish life, and as a response to modern anti-Jewish ideas and action that we call anti-Semitism. In this lecture we consider the relative Israel/Diaspora political strategies of self-government versus integration. Audio:  intro_to_zionism_2.mp3 read more