::Negation of the Diaspora

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{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||$N=POV |date=__DATE__ |$B= {{#invoke:Message box|ambox}} }} {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||$N=Merge |date=__DATE__ |$B= {{#invoke:Message box|mbox}} }} The negation of the Diaspora (Hebrew: שלילת הגלות‎{{#invoke:Category handler|main}}, shlilat ha'galut, or Hebrew: שלילת הגולה‎{{#invoke:Category handler|main}}, shlilat ha'golah) is a central assumption in many currents of Zionism. The concept encourages the dedication to Zionism and it is used to justify the denial of the feasibility of Jewish emancipation in the Diaspora. Life in the Diaspora would either lead to discrimination and persecution or to national decadence and assimilation. A more moderate formulation says that the Jews as a people have no future without a "spiritual center" in the Land of Israel.<ref>Schweid, p. 133</ref>

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