Theodor Herzl reports on the Dreyfus trial in Paris, in which a French Jewish army captain is falsely accused of giving military secrets to the Germans. His guilt is trumped up because he is Jewish. The trial is evidence that even in ‘liberal’ France, Jews do not enjoy civic equality with non-Jews. Herzl is dismayed enough to write an appeal for Jews to establish a state of their own.
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