zionism
IPA: zˈaɪʌnɪzʌm
Root Word: Zionism
noun
- (politics) Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of a Jewish state in Israel.
- A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa and most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism.
- A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events.
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Examples of "zionism" in Sentences
- Report Abuse time to reclaim "zionism". the word zionism =
- As for being ‘racist’, being against radical zionism is no more racist than being against radical islam.
- Politically, I get the impression that there is little sympathy for Israel's positions, and a tendency to equate Jewish heritage/beliefs with "zionism".
- In much the same way the right used the word “patriotism”, zionism is all too often defined by the right to mean a blanket defense for Israeli aggression and occupation.
- Zionista · June 7th, 2004 at 10:12 am well i am happy you brought that up. i guess then that on these shores the term zionism is not worty of my defense. ah, things are so different here
- I’m of the opinion that if zionism is such a worthy national goal of the U.S. we should have built a scale model of Palestine complete with a replica Jordan river off the coast of Florida and called it a day and saved some money.
- Perhaps we should consider that the israeli government is not only illegitimate, but has been taken over by a terrorist organization called zionism and their little 'stazi police', the mossad who've been handed the keys to the vault of the US and has cleaned it out.
- For the Jews, extreme nationalism can be termed zionism; Christian extremists tend towards the dominionists or crusaders (although the original crusades were largely about land too, with only the eldest sons being inheritors and his siblings being left in the lurch).
- For example, if a motive for anti-zionism is “a similarly tribalistic concern for the welfare of the Palestinians, as Palestinians”, but oppose a two state solution where Jews may maintain assure welfare by similar means, then they are giving rights to one for the express concern of giving it to another.
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