In 2001 Palestinians claimed in an international conference that Zionism is racism, and that they are the victims of gross crimes against humanity at the hands of the Israelis. The charges are somewhat ironic, since the Jews created Israel as a...

ZIONISM. The origin of the word Zion is unclear. It most likely derives from a word meaning "rock" or "stronghold" or perhaps "a dry place." The first occurrence of the name is in 2 Samuel 5:7, where David...

Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews (Hebrew: Eretz Yisra&hamzah;el, “the Land of Israel”). Though Zionism originated in...

Zionism is the political creed, dating from early in the diaspora, that the old Jewish national homeland of Palestine should be regained by Jews and run as a national home and centre for world-wide Jewish solidarity. Although Zionism grew with...

The modern belief that the Jews should have a homeland, made concrete in the nineteenth and twentieth century program of developing the Land of Israel (the biblical Zion) as a Jewish state. While the idea that the Jews will have Zion as their homeland...

Movement dedicated to restoring the land of *Israel to the Jewish people. Since the destruction of the *Jerusalem *Temple in 70CE, the desire to return has been preserved in folklore and the *liturgy. The modern Zionist movement was launched in 1897 at...

Jewish nationalism movement with the goal of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. In the 16th–17th century, a number of “messiahs” tried to persuade the Jews to return to Palestine, but by the late 18th century interest had...

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