Zionism
noun
Zi·on·ism
ˈzī-ə-ˌni-zəm 
: an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel
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In this sense, critics of Israel who claim that American Jews must choose between Zionism and liberalism have it backward.
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Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
Threats against Arab, Jewish and Muslim Americans are on the rise, according to federal officials, and college campuses have been embroiled in angry debates over Zionism, Palestinian rights, antisemitism and free speech.
—Tobi Raji The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 29 Mar. 2024
In doing so, Israel would be fulfilling the ultimate purpose of Zionism, which is Jewish self-rule — neither rule by others nor rule over others.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
Now, Passaro may simply wish, as did many Palestinians who rejected cooperation with the developing Jewish colony through the Twenties and Thirties, that Zionism had never happened and that the British had never come.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
There are many different factions in Zionism, which – at its simplest – is support for Jewish people having an independent state in Israel.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
After years of arguing that the intention behind offensive words matters less than their effects, leftists should be equipped to bring a bit of subtlety and sensitivity to discussions of Jews and Zionism.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
In fact, some groups had already complained that courses critical of Zionism, and even films about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, amounted to discrimination, based on the I.H.R.A. definition.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
The dollar sign and the Star of David were not a statement about Jews, SNCC claimed in a subsequent newsletter, but symbols of Zionism strangling Arabs and the United States strangling Muhammad Ali as well as Arabs.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
Threats against Arab, Jewish and Muslim Americans are on the rise, according to federal officials, and college campuses have been embroiled in angry debates over Zionism, Palestinian rights, antisemitism and free speech.
—Tobi Raji The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 29 Mar. 2024
In doing so, Israel would be fulfilling the ultimate purpose of Zionism, which is Jewish self-rule — neither rule by others nor rule over others.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
Now, Passaro may simply wish, as did many Palestinians who rejected cooperation with the developing Jewish colony through the Twenties and Thirties, that Zionism had never happened and that the British had never come.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
There are many different factions in Zionism, which – at its simplest – is support for Jewish people having an independent state in Israel.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
After years of arguing that the intention behind offensive words matters less than their effects, leftists should be equipped to bring a bit of subtlety and sensitivity to discussions of Jews and Zionism.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
In fact, some groups had already complained that courses critical of Zionism, and even films about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, amounted to discrimination, based on the I.H.R.A. definition.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
The dollar sign and the Star of David were not a statement about Jews, SNCC claimed in a subsequent newsletter, but symbols of Zionism strangling Arabs and the United States strangling Muhammad Ali as well as Arabs.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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Zionism
noun
Zi·on·ism
ˈzī-ə-ˌniz-əm
: an international effort working in the beginning for a Jewish homeland and later for the support of Israel
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