Home / Ideologies / Zionism
The Jewish national movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, which sought a Jewish state in the Land of Israel as a response to antisemitism and led to the creation of Israel in 1948, uniting nation, the Hebrew language, and return to the ancestral land.
In one sentence
I want a democratic Jewish state in the Land of Israel that welcomes every Jew, revives Hebrew, and is a safe home for the people.
Political axes
Leans further toward globalism than 74% of the 248 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
An Austro-Hungarian journalist, Herzl was the founder of modern political Zionism, advocating the creation of a Jewish national state as a response to antisemitism, becoming a central figure in Israel's history.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Reference country
A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Israel combines a vibrant democracy, a strong Jewish national identity, an advanced technology economy, and a prolonged conflict with the Palestinians that dominates its politics and security.
Other close countries
The largest constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is governed directly by Westminster with no parliament of its own, with an established Church of England, a public health service (NHS), a financial centre in London, a Brexit majority and a growing populist vote.
Also close, by dimension
The most distant
Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
Also close, by dimension
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Closest within Center
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Closest in other spectrums
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist40%