Zionism

English

Etymology

Zion +‎ -ism

Noun

Zionism (countable and uncountable, plural Zionisms)

1. (politics) Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of a Jewish state in Israel.
   • 1996, Gal Allon, ‎Allon Gal, ‎Jerold S. Auerbach, Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews, page 151:

     These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists.

2. A religion practiced by people all over sub-Saharan Africa and is most popular in Swaziland. The religion is a mixture of Protestantism and animism.
3. A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events

Synonyms

• Herzlianism

Derived terms

• prozionist, Ziochristian
• ziofascist, ziofascism, Zionazi, Zionazism
• Zionistan, Zionistically
• Zionization, Zionification
• Zionize, zionify, Zionise

 

Related terms

• Zion, Sion
• Zionist
• Zionistic

Translations

Jewish national liberation movement

• Arabic: صَهْيُونِيَّة f (ṣahyūniyya)
• Aragonese: sionismo m
• Armenian: սիոնիզմ (hy) (sionizm)
• Catalan: sionisme m
• Cherokee: ᏌᏯᏂᎤᏃᎯᏳ (sayaniunohiyu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太復國主義／犹太复国主义 (zh) (Yóutàifùguózhǔyì), 犹太复国主义 (zh) (Yóutài-fùguózhǔyì), 錫安主義／锡安主义 (zh) (Xī'ān-zhǔyì), 锡安主义 (zh) (Xī'ān-zhǔyì)

• Czech: sionismus (cs) m
• Dutch: zionisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: cionismo
• Finnish: sionismi (fi)
• French: sionisme (fr) m
• Georgian: სიონიზმი (sionizmi)
• German: Zionismus (de) m
• Greek: σιωνισμός (el) m (sionismós)
• Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת (he) f (tsiyonút)
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• Irish: Siónachas m
• Japanese: シオニズム (shionizumu)
• Korean: 시오니즘 (sionijeum), 시온주의 (sionjuui)
• Manx: Seionaght f
• Persian: صهیونیسم (fa) (sahyunism)
• Polish: syjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: sionismo (pt) m
• Russian: сиони́зм (ru) m (sionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ционѝзам m

  Roman: cionìzam (sh) m

• Spanish: sionismo (es) m
• Tagalog: Sayonismo
• Volapük: siunim
• Yiddish: ציעניזם m (tsyenizm)