Zionism
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm/
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sionismo
- Many Jewish people around the world actively support Zionism as a means to establish a homeland in Israel.
- Zionism in Palestine
- support Zionism
- Zionism was a movement
Not all Jews supported Zionism, but it gained influence quickly.
- Not all Jews supported Zionism, but it gained influence quickly.
- And of course, the Jewish people have always debated about Zionism, what it means, what it doesn't mean.
- So I I think Netanyahu is is wrong headed to equate anti Zionism with anti-Semitism.
- You know, in general, Muslims have in general opposed the state of Israel and oppose Zionism.
- But that resolution claiming that Zionism, the the idea that the Jewish people have a right to their to a state in their ancestral homeland, that that is racist.
- I should point out at this point that it's Zionism didn't invent the Jewish connection to Israel.
- Defenses of US or other bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, et cetera.
- He's like anti Zionist, which he didn't even know what Zionism was, but it's, you know, it's it.
Examples
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Theodor Herzl, one of Zionism's founding thinkers, wrote a magnum opus called Der Judenstaat.
Academic text (1999) -
Rights are the heart of the matter because Zionism is essentially a claim of right.
Blog text (9) -
I'll try to limit myself to just a few points regarding Zionism and transfer.
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Have you ever heard the word "Zionism"?
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Not all Jews supported Zionism, but it gained influence quickly.
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While famous for writing and lecturing about Israel and Zionism, he did not speak or read Hebrew.
Academic text (2008) -
And of course, the Jewish people have always debated about Zionism, what it means, what it doesn't mean.
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As Walter Laqueur tells us: "Labor Zionism emerged as the movement's strongest political force."
Academic text (1996) -
Yet simultaneously, in Palestine, Zionism was evolving in a manifestly socialist direction.
Academic text (1996) -
The debate about Zionism often centers on its implications for peace in the Middle East.
Synonyms
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5.9
A movement by Jewish people to create a country for Jews in Palestine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Zionism comes from Zion, the biblical name for Jerusalem and the surrounding land, plus the ending -ism, which marks a 'belief' or 'movement', as in socialism. So Zionism is the movement to create and support a Jewish homeland there.