{"id":120302,"date":"2026-08-25T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/120302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:31:12","slug":"death-to-zionism-protest-planned-in-basel-129-years-to-the-day-after-theodor-herzl-founded-jewish-state-in-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/120302\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death to Zionism\u2019 protest planned in Basel \u2013 129 years to the day after Theodor Herzl \u2018founded Jewish State\u2019 in city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Herzl famously wrote in his journal about the event: \u201cAt Basel I founded the Jewish State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protest\u00a0is being promoted by a group called basel4palestine but the organisers have not been identified, Jonathan Kreutner, general secretary of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG), told JNS.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Basel, who require protests to apply for approval at least 14 days in advance, have been alerted to the development, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s serious and the authorities are alert,\u201d said Kreutner.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the banner on Instagram, basel4palestine posted: \u2018From the birthplace of Zionism, we call for its destruction!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Basel\u2019s Theaterplatz is a broad public square at the centre of Basel\u2019s cultural district.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s located less than a mile away from the Old City and serves as a meeting place and venue for public gatherings, performances and demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"p-smartembed\" data-attr-caption=\"The online banner promoting the protest (Instagram\/basel4palestine)\" data-attr-credit=\"\" data-attr-f=\"3x2\" data-attr-has-caption=\"true\" data-attr-has-credit=\"true\" data-attr-q=\"0.3\" data-attr-w=\"400\" data-onecms-id=\"contentid\/1tcn2uiam4i129qn242\" data-onecms-type=\"image\" href=\"javascript:throw new Error('React has blocked a javascript: URL as a security precaution.')\" polopoly:contentid=\"contentid\/1tcn2uiam4i129qn242\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Image 25-08-2026 at 11.35.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"The online banner promoting the protest (Instagram\/basel4palestine)\"\/>The online banner promoting the protest (Instagram\/basel4palestine)[Missing Credit]<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Congress participants established the Zionist Organisation during the event, which was later renamed the World Zionist Organisation, and elected Theodor Herzl, a Budapest-born journalist turned Zionist activist, as the congress\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>The Zionist Organisation was an important element facilitating\u00a0the creation and survival of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>After writing \u2018At Basel I founded the Jewish State\u2019, Herzl\u00a0added that saying so publicly at the time would invite ridicule, but predicted that this would be universally recognised within 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>David Ben-Gurion, Israel\u2019s first prime minister, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, 50 years and eight months after the 1897 event.<\/p>\n<p>Herzl died in 1904 in Edlach an der Rax, a town in modern-day Austria, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was 44.<\/p>\n<p>From the birthplace of Zionism, we call for its destruction! For a free Palestine. For Lebanon, Syria, Iran and all the people resisting this genocidal ideology. Join us in Basel, on the 29th of August 2026 14.00 Theaterplatz. Exactly 129 years after the congress that started the Zionist movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Herzl famously wrote in his journal about the event: \u201cAt Basel I founded the Jewish State.\u201d The protest\u00a0is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,1731,1730,17,29516,8475],"class_list":["post-120302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-basel","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-switzerland","tag-theodor-herzl","tag-zionism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117156399447681173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}