Example sentences for: zionism

How can you use “zionism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main themes: 1) Israel is a model democracy; 2) Israeli treatment of Arabs is incomparably better than Arab treatment of Israelis or Arab treatment of Arabs; 3) Zionism signifies "the Jewish preference for power over self-pity."

  • Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

  • The more common response among Jews was to devote themselves to Zionism as a bulwark against future persecution, or to engage in symbolic retribution (banning Wagner from Israeli national radio), or to pursue justice through the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals or other legitimate arenas of justice.

  • An immense essay by Editor in Chief Martin Peretz traces Zionism's triumphant history, beginning with the 1897 Basel conference.

  • Mamelukes to Zionism


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