How to Use Zionism in a Sentence
Zionism
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One thing people have been talking about a lot lately is Zionism.
—Abc News, ABC News, 2024-06-26
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The Reform movement has had its own shifts on the topic of Zionism.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 2023-12-17
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In other words, the pogroms partially gave birth to modern Zionism.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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In court, Anatoly pleaded not guilty but delivered a fiery speech about the threat of Zionism to the world.
—Oleh Sentsov, The New Yorker, 2023-08-10
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My grandfather had been invited to give a lecture about Zionism.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-05-15
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So much of the debate about Zionism now seems to be about Zionism post-1948.
—Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 2025-05-05
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Eliot never uses the term Zionism, because it wouldn’t be coined for another 14 years.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 2024-01-30
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There is also religious Zionism, where Jews pray every day to move to Jerusalem to pray at the site of their holy temple.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2024-07-13
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The basic argument of Zionism — that the Jews are not safe — was vindicated by the death of six million.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 2024-02-01
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For years, Judaism and Zionism have been presented as one to Americans.
—Chicago Tribune, 2025-01-08
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The Seder was a bit like all other Seders (prayers were recited) and also not (there was shouting about Zionism as a false idol).
—The Editors, Curbed, 2024-12-02
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As a Jewish lawmaker himself, how does Sanders define Zionism?
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 2024-05-02
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Many protestors who are Jewish are pushing back against the conflation of Zionism and their religion.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2024-04-24
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Many in Israel see this not only as a security challenge, but also as a question of sovereignty and Zionism.
—Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-11-16
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Anyone who dared to speak out against Zionism and Israeli extremism is labelled an anti-Semite and at times, even a Nazi.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 2025-03-14
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Nobody should be shocked that someone as dogmatic as Greta Thunberg failed to reach a sudden moral epiphany about Zionism by the end of her journey.
—The Editors, National Review, 2025-06-11
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These are damning facts for an organization that seeks to redefine Judaism to exclude Zionism.
—Chai Posner, Baltimore Sun, 2025-04-30
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But Zionism has been reframed and rebranded so poorly that now for anyone from the entertainment industry that has spoken up, there is real backlash.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-09-18
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In fact, most Jews at the time did not believe in the Zionist ideology, and many of them even opposed secular Zionism on religious grounds.
—Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 2024-04-23
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Most worrisome to Slama, who has three children, is the constant confounding of Israel, Zionism and Jews.
—Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-06
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Amid the gathering sense of existential danger, Netanyahu is, as always, pitching himself as the man who can ensure that Zionism survives the war.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 2024-08-08
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In this sense, critics of Israel who claim that American Jews must choose between Zionism and liberalism have it backward.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 2024-04-09
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The company acknowledged that Zionism refers to a political movement, and using the term in that context, whether in support or not, does not violate the policy.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2024-12-05
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The latter funders reflect Berger's vociferous support for ideas aligned with the Christian Zionism movement.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Jabotinsky, whose version of Zionism was the precursor to Likud, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu, had a more realistic vision.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2024-02-14
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This set him on a collision course with Zionism, the belief in Jewish self-determination in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 2025-06-06
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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
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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
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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
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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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