Editing Self-determination (section)

=== Israel ===
{{Main|Zionism|Israel|4 = Jewish history}}
[[File:Declaration of State of Israel 1948.jpg|thumb|[[David Ben-Gurion]] [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|proclaiming Israel's independence]] beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl]]
[[Zionism]] is a nationalist ideology founded by [[Theodor Herzl]] which claims a right of historic entitlement by descent as a nation, to exercise self-determination for [[Jewish diaspora|all Jewish people]] in the region of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]/[[ancient Israel]]/[[land of Israel]].<ref>Chaim Gans, [''A Political Theory for the Jewish People,''] [[Oxford University Press]] 2016 {{isbn|978-0-190-23754-7}} pp.1-18</ref> The successful implementation of this vision led to the establishment of the [[Israel|State of Israel]] in 1948.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Claeys |first=Gregory |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452234168 |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought |date=2013 |publisher=SAGE Publications, Ltd. |isbn=978-0-87289-910-0 |location=Thousand Oaks, California |doi=10.4135/9781452234168 |hdl=10138/156263}}</ref>