Zionism

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A political movement that supports the maintenance and preservation of the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland, originally arising in the late 1800s with the goal of reestablishing a Jewish homeland in the region of Palestine.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The latest national movement of the Jews which has for its object “the creation of a home secured by public rights, for those Jews who either cannot or will not be assimilated in the country of their adoption.” (Herzl.)

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The Jewish national liberation movement which proclaims that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled their national homeland.
• noun A mentality that the lands west of the Jordan river belong in their entirety or majority to the people of the state of Israel or the Jewish often to the exception of other previous or coordinate inhabitants.
• noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
• noun a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine