Zionism was envisioned as a movement involving coercion and violence.

Evidence

Violence, then, was implicit in Zionism from the outset. — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 33

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 33
• XREF: connects to: Zionists misdiagnosed the causes of Arab resistance to their endeavors. — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 184; Zionism is an ethnonationalist movement that has perpetrated ethnic cleansing and apartheid — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 14

Library Connections

• Zionists misdiagnosed the causes of Arab resistance to their endeavors. #complicates (0.75) — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 184