Among the Jews, a theory, plan, or movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, or, if that is impracticable, elsewhere, either for religious or nationalizing purposes; -- called also Zion movement.
(Zion or Sion : the hill of Jerusalem on which the city of David was built; the Jewish people or their religion; the Kingdom of God in Heaven.) : a movement (originally) for the reestablishment and (now) the development of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. The first Zionist congress was held in Basel in 1897 on the initiative of Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism.
Belief in the centrality of Israel in Jewish historical & religious experience. http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/100/index.html
The fervent desire of Jews of the Diaspora to return to their ancestral homeland of Palestine. This ideal is at least 2,500 years old, dating to the Babylonian Captivity. Its first statement is found in Psalm 137:1, "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept as we remembered Zion." Political Zionism which emerged in the 19th century and ultimately resulted in the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948 is an outgrowth of spiritual Zionism.
A modern political movement with the aim of creating a Jewish state.
a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine
The term given to the modern political and religious movement to establish a Jewish homeland.
Movement whose goal was return of Jews to Eretz Yisrael, or Zion, Jewish synonym for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Political and cultural movement calling for the return of the Jewish people to their Biblical home.
A modern movement of Jewish national self-determination, founded by European Jews in the last decades of the nineteenth century in response to the rise of nationalism in Europe and the persistence of anti-Semitism even after the Enlightenment and the consequent legal emancipation of Jews. With the Holocaust and the U.N. creation of the State of Israel in 1947–1948, the Zionist vision became reality.
Movement originating in Eastern Europe during the 1860s and 1870s that argued that the Jews must return to a Middle Eastern Holy Land; eventually identified with the settlement of Palestine. (p. 973)
Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of IsraelZionism On The Web, http://www.zionismontheweb.org/zionism_definitions.htm "Definitions of Zionism", a compiled collection, Accessed January 10, 2007.. Formally organized in the late 19th century, the movement was successful in establishing the State of Israel in 1948, as the world's first and only modern Jewish State. It continues primarily as support for the state and government of Israel and its continuing status as a homeland for the Jewish people."An international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel." ("Zionism," Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary).