[HIGHLIGHTS] "There is the Zionism of enthusiasm and that of despair"

Historian Michael Brenner explains how the term became the core of the State of Israel. Brenner: Zionism was a reaction to anti-Semitic discrimination throughout Europe.

Theodor Herzl's first idea was very naive: All Jews should go to St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and be baptized. But he quickly understood that it wasn't that easy. He then wrote the book ‘The Jewish State’ – and came to the conclusion that would become central to Zionism: the Jews are one people.