"The Zionist movement adopted the Star of David at the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 because it had become a popular Jewish symbol by then, and for the mostly secular early Zionists, it had the merit of not being seen solely as a religious symbol (as the late Israeli Jewish scholar Gershon Scholem noted in a 1949 essay in Commentary magazine titled, “The Curious History of the Six-Pointed Star: How the ‘Magen David’ Became the Jewish Symbol”)."
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