| anti-Zionist | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who is opposed to Zionism |
| —adj | |
| 2. | opposed to Zionism: he was anti-Zionist and not anti-Semitic |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
The belief that Jews should have their own nation; Jewish nationalism. Zionism gained much support among Jews and others in the early twentieth century, and the hoped-for nation was established in the late 1940s in Palestine, as the state of Israel. Zionism is opposed by most Arabs. (See Arab-Israeli conflict.)