Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on March 20, 2016

Historical Examples

This is an allegory referring to certain aspects of Zionism.

The premises of political Zionism are that there is a Jewish nation.

Zionism, Socialism and Anarchism come up in turn, and so many trenchant and vital things are said on these subjects.

This is, in brief, the theological side of the vexed question of Zionism.

The common opinion is that you are an enemy of Zionism in general, and of the Jewish Legion in particular.

British Dictionary definitions for Zionism Expand

a political movement for the establishment and support of a national homeland for Jews in Palestine, now concerned chiefly with the development of the modern state of Israel

a policy or movement for Jews to return to Palestine from the Diaspora

Derived Forms

Zionist, noun, adjectiveZionistic, adjective

Word Origin and History for Zionism Expand

"movement for forming (later supporting) a Jewish national state in Palestine," 1896, from German Zionismus (from Zion + Latin-derived suffix -ismus; see -ism); first recorded 1886 in "Selbstemancipation," by "Matthias Acher" (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum).

Zionism in Culture Expand

The belief that Jews should have their own nation; Jewish nationalism. Zionism gained much support among Jews and others in the early twentieth century, and the hoped-for nation was established in the late 1940s in Palestine, as the state of Israel. Zionism is opposed by most Arabs. (See Arab-Israeli conflict.)

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