For a long period of time, Jews, living in Europe, suffered through marginalization. For example, they were denied in having a career in several positions and in some case the right to own property; this lead to their desire to leave and establish a new homeland. Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, believed that there was another major reason to drive the Jews out Europe. “He concluded that assimilation and emancipation could not work, because the Jews were a nation. Their problem was not economic or social or religious but national.” Theodor meant that the Jewish population around the world had the required ingredients to institute a new and efficient nation.
Herzl and several other Zionist leaders believed that this issue