Zionism was (and is) the movement to establish and preserve a Jewish homeland (this has been realized in the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel).
It is the ideology that Jewish people should have their own state. The Land of Israel was promised to the Jewish people by God, according to The Bible. Jews lived in the Land of Israel from the time of Joshua until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Almost all Jews were exiled to other countries, known to Jews as the Diaspora. For centuries, Jews prayed for a return to Zion. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement, led by Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, encouraged Jews to turn the dream into reality, and lobbied the international community to understand that a "Jewish national home" was the only solution to anti-Semitism and the "Jewish problem."
In 1947, the dream was realized when the UN voted to partition Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs immediately attacked the Jews and in the middle of the war, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence. Today, about half of the world's Jewry lives in Israel. Most Jews living in and out of Israel are supporters of Israel and the Zionist ideology, although a small percent believe only divine intervention should bring about a Jewish state.
Zionism.
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
British support in establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
A zionist is a member of the Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the support and development of the state of Israel.
Jewish refugees were given a homeland in Palestine.
The Zionist Movement established the Jewish State of Israel in the historic Jewish homeland.
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
In the British Mandate of Palestine.
Zionists started a movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
Israel
Zionists.
Answer 1Israel was created where Palestine used to be.Answer 2In 1917, Lord Balfour described the future British Mandate for Palestine as a possible Jewish National Homeland.
Zionists
Israel is the Jewish homeland, but it is not new. It was given to the Israelites well over three thousand years ago by God (Genesis ch.28, Deuteronomy ch.1). See also:Where_did_Jews_live_in_more_than_anywhere_else
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
zionism - "the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, advocated, from its inception, tangible as well as spiritual aims."