Zionism

//ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of Israel as a Jewish state. countable, uncountable

    "These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists."

  2. 2
    a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine wordnet
  3. 3
    A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa, most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine wordnet
  5. 5
    A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Zion + -ism, calqued in analogy to German Zionismus, coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890.

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