Zionist movement
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- noun
- /ˈzaɪənɪst ˈmuːvmənt/
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movimiento sionista
- In 1904, Theodore Herzl had an audience with Pope Pius X; in this audience, the founder of the Zionist movement sought papal support for the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland.
- support for the Zionist movement
Examples
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The Vatican was involved with the Zionist movement long before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
Academic text (1995) -
On 27 February 1919, representatives of the Zionist movement presented their program for Palestine to the peace conference.
Academic text (1990) -
But most historians of the subject agree the Zionist movement was committed to the idea of a Jewish state.
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From its foundation, the territorial aspirations of the Zionist movement included access to water resources necessary to ensure the survival of a Jewish national home.
Academic text (1996) -
The founding of Israel (and the entire Zionist movement) was secular, not religious.
Blog text (5) -
Its growth and the impact of its ideas were of decisive importance, for it shaped the character of the Zionist movement and subsequently the state of Israel.
Academic text (1996) -
It was during that period that the Zionist movement became a real political force, developing its pre-state organization.
Academic text (2018) -
It should be emphasized that, practically from its beginning, the Zionist movement sought a "Jewish state."
Academic text (2002) -
Although the British government was the executor of a colonial plan in Palestine after World War I, the Zionist movement in the United States was its legislator.
Academic text (1990) -
He became actively involved in the Zionist movement to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
Synonyms
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7.3
A movement of Jewish people to create and support a homeland in Israel
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Zionist' (a person who supports Zionism) with 'movement' (a collective pursuing a shared goal): together they denote the collective political/social campaign of Zionists. The 'X movement' construction is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Zionist movement takes its name from Zion, a name from the Bible for Jerusalem and the idea of a Jewish homeland. In the late 1800s many Jews who wanted to 'return' to that land began to organize to create a nation in Palestine, so the phrase came to mean the movement working for a 'Jewish homeland'.