European nationalism supplied the ideological template for Jewish statehood claims

Evidence

The new nationalism confronted the Jews with new problems; to some it also suggested a new solution. If the nation—an entity defined by descent, culture and aspiration—was the only natural and rightful basis of statehood, why then the Jews were also a nation, and must have their own State. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 947

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Anderson’s imagined communities thesis and the general cluster on how national identities get constructed — a mechanism case for the Jew-as-nation claim.