How to Use Zionism in a Sentence

Zionism

noun
  • In other words, the pogroms partially gave birth to modern Zionism.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Regrettably, open and meaningful discourse about Zionism has not been widely accepted within many mental health circles.
    Daniel Balva, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The latter funders reflect Berger's vociferous support for ideas aligned with the Christian Zionism movement.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Zionism is often described as a movement of national self-determination, implying that Jews have always been a nation that was finally and fittingly granted a state to forge its own future.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The flagrant hypocrisy may not matter to those who believe that criticism of Zionism and Israel too often masks antisemitism and that the safety of Jewish students on college campuses is at stake.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Because of their pivotal role in modern Jewish history in general – and the birth of Zionism and Israel in particular – pogroms have an oversize place in Jewish collective memory.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Leftists like her also see Yiddish itself as an ideological mainstay of Jewish movements that opposed Zionism, even as Israel embraced modern Hebrew.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • These sources, and others, often downplay or invalidate antisemitism and promote harmful, inaccurate narratives about Israel that fail to reflect the broad and diverse range of Jewish perspectives on Zionism.
    Daniel Balva, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • According to this view, Jews who reject Zionism are only rejecting themselves, while hostility to Zionism is nothing more than hostility toward Jews—that is, anti-Semitism.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In time, the ideological affinity between European nationalism and Zionism offered a framework for a new relationship between the European right and the Jews.
    Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • When did Zionism—the movement for Jewish self-determination in the Jewish ancestral homeland of Israel—come to be mischaracterized as inherently racist or anti-Palestinian?
    Daniel Balva, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs [Ron Dermer] has pointed out, Christian Zionism is the backbone of American support for Israel.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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