Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion) was a
political party
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, founded in 1906 in Ottoman
Palestine
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* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
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. Its founders belonged to a group of Jewish settlers, that had taken part in self-defense during the
Homel
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Etymology
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pogrom. It was the Palestinian branch of the international
Poale Zion
Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire in about the turn of the 20th century after ...
movement.
The party joined the
Second International
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in 1915. It was invited to join the International in February 1915, on the initiative of
Émile Vandervelde, at a conference held in London (in which the Belgian, French, British and Russian labour parties participated. The meeting of the parties from the
Central Power countries, held in
Vienna
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in April 1915 did not object to the affiliation of the party.
[Schenhav, Mordechaï. ]
Le socialisme international et l'État juif (1891-1973)
'. Paris: Connaissances et Savoirs, 2009. p. 53
References
{{Ottoman Empire political parties
Political parties in the Ottoman Empire
Labor Zionism
Second International
1906 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Jewish political parties
Poale Zion