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Movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Answer for the clue "Movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine ", 7 letters:
zionism
Alternative clues for the word zionism
- A movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine
- Movement associated with Chaim Weizmann
- "Der Judenstaat" movement
- Movement Herman Wouk called "a single long action of lifesaving"
- Jewish movement
- Mideast nationalist movement
- A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
Word definitions for zionism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zionism \Zi"on*ism\, n. [Zion + -ism.] Among the Jews, a theory, plan, or movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, or, if that is impracticable, elsewhere, either for religious or nationalizing purposes; -- called also Zion ...
Usage examples of zionism.
Although the Balfour Declaration gave Zionism the lukewarm support of the backers of the White Guardist pogromists, it did nothing to curb the pogroms.
Zionism, great Zionist leaders and thinkers such as Nahum Goldmann originally dreamed that Israel, like other civilized states, would also be anchored in international institutions and might even form part of a multiethnic federation with the Arab states of the Middle East, thereby resolving the dilemma in which Jewish diaspora liberalism found itself.