Thesaurus for Zionism

a country the size of your fingernail that gets 10% of all international media coverage and has more trouble than half the rest of the world.

1. A person , Jewish or non-Jewish, who, by some action, supports the State of Israel.

2. A substitue word for 'jew' used by anti-semites who, for whatever reason, wish to hide their racist intent.

The only people in the world that are simultaneously hated by both the extreme Left and the extreme Right.

Synonym: scapegoat

1. Someone who practices Judaism.

2. Derogatory term for someone tight with their money or someone not very generous.

Ok, since there are too many here that only mention racist, opinionised and wrong events, I will explain it all free of opinion of any side. All that I write are historical facts.

Palestine was the name of the country between the Jordan river on the east, the Sinai desert on the south and the territory of Lebanon on the North. The name of the country came from the name of the ancient powerful nation that lived in it in the time of the Bible, Plishtim.
Through the history, the country was ruled by many differant empires troughout the ages like the Romans, the Bizanties, the Saracens, the Crusadersand, and the Ottoman empire. (and NOT just "ruled by Arabs for 1000 years" like some one before me said).
Until the year 1918, the country was ruled (for 400 years) by the Ottoman empire. In 1918, Britanny conquered Palestine and started ruling it as a Mandate (temporary government that is meant to prepare the land under its control for independant national government).
In the ending of the 19th century, the "Zionist organisation" was formed by European Jews, and, because of the wake of Jewish nationalism, started searching for territorial answers for "the problem of the Jews, a nation without a country". One of the answers was, very obviously, Palestine (also named Zion for Jerusalem), which Jews saw for centuries as their true land, where they were banished from, and dreamed of returning to. This started a great wave of immigration to Palestine, that increased troughout the...

A religion. And SCREW the person who wrote the entry about it meaning stupid.

1. Zion or "Shion", meaning literally "The Pure In Heart"

2. A place, defined in scriptural texts as a hill, city or continent, where the holy dwell and deity has His throne.

3. A mythical place of holdout in a popular movie "The Matrix".

something that did happen, but 11 million people were killed, everyone hears about the 7 million Jews who died, but no one even cares about the 5 million peasants, christians, Roman Catholics, and others who were killed

the first monotheistic religion, basis of two of today's other major religions (Christianity and Islam). The Jewish holy book is the Torah, which is the basis for the Christian Old Testament. Judaism, except in its orthodox form, is probably the most accepting and loosest of the major religions of the Western Hemisphere. Sadly, its followers have been persecuted and ridiculed throughout the ages, and have always been misunderstood by the ignorant.

Pure Bullshit.