Zionism and the Barciora

The birth of zionism would eventually be followed by a period referred to as the second alia which occurred from 1905 through 1914. During this period tens of thousands of jewish settlers would immigrate to palestine in order to develop colonies and settlements. The barciora was a jewish paramilitary which developed self-defense capacities for the settlers although much of the function of the group was built around self-defense they also had a clandestine insurrectionary function. In 1917 the balfour declaration promised to establish a jewish national home in palestine but nonetheless it was itself signed by an anti-Semitic politician who wanted to get rid of jews from england. Despite the arab revolt