Israel & Palestine: Balfour's Promise (Part 2)

In January 1895, a Viennese journalist watches a French mob scream "Death to the Jews" as a decorated officer is publicly degraded for a crime he didn't commit. Theodor Herzl walks out of that courtyard with a conclusion that will reshape the Middle East: Jews will never be safe as guests in other people's nations. They need a nation of their own. In Episode 2 of our five-part series on Israel and Palestine, we trace the birth of political Zionism from the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Af...