Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion)

Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion)

Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party in Palestine (Poale Zion) was a political party, founded in 1906 in Ottoman Palestine. Its founders belonged to a group of Jewish settlers, that had taken part in self-defense during the Homel pogrom. It was the Palestinian branch of the international Poale Zion movement. [Frankel, Jonathan. "Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. p. 383]

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