A land without a people for a people without a land

Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper , by F. In the collection of Dorset County museum , Dorchester. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is a widely-cited phrase associated with the reintroduction of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel . Although usually assumed to have been a Zionist slogan, the phrase was in fact coined by a Christian Restorationist clergyman in 1843 and it continued to be fairly widely used for almost a century by Christian Restorationists. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century period in which this phrase was in common use, the Arab inhabitants of Palestine did not in their view constitute a coherent national group, "a people", and, therefore, Christian Restorationists argued that the "land of Israel" should be given to the Jewish people. It is now thought by some scholars that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists .

Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper , by F. In the collection of Dorset County museum , Dorchester. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although usually assumed to have been a Zionist slogan, the phrase was used as early as 1843 by a Christian Restorationist clergyman and it continued to be used for almost a century by Christian Restorationists. It is thought by some scholars that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists . The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881–1948 (Studies in Jewish History)/ Anita Shapira ; translated by William Templer.

Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper , by F. In the collection of Dorset County museum , Dorchester. " A land without a people for a people without a land " is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although usually assumed to have been a Zionist slogan, the phrase was used as early as 1843 by a Christian Restorationist clergyman and it continued to be used for almost a century by Christian Restorationists. Alan Dowty and Diana Muir have written that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists . The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881–1948 (Studies in Jewish History)/ Anita Shapira ; translated by William Templer.

Phrase associated with Zionism Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper , by F. In the collection of the Dorset Museum , Dorchester. " A land without a people for a people without a land " is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine . Its historicity and significance are a matter of contention. Although it became a Jewish Zionist slogan, the phrase was originally used as early as 1843 by a Christian Restorationist clergyman, and the phrase continued to be used for almost a century predominantly by Christian Restorationists. Alan Dowty and Diana Muir have claimed that this phrase never came into widespread use among Jewish Zionists.