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| Hudson, David (2012). The Handy History Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series). Visible Ink Press. p. 322
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Zionism was founded as a nationalist movement to establish an independent Jewish state; it began in the 1890s, and roughly fifty years later, in 1948, the movement's activism resulted in the proclamation of the state of Israel. Since that time, Zionism has focused its efforts on building bridges between Israel and Jewish people around the world.
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| Stanislawski, Michael (2016). Zionism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Oxford University Press. p. 1.
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Zionism - the nationalist movement calling for the establishment and support of an independent state for the Jewish people in its ancient homeland - is today one of the most controversial ideologies in the world.
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| Helmut Anheier (editor) and Mark Juergensmeyer (editor). Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Sage publications. 2012. p. 1835
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The term Zionism refers both to an ideology that aimed to establish an independent sovereign Jewish political entity in Palestine (ancient homeland of the Jewish people) and to a national liberation movement
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| Chaims Gans. Political theory for the Jewish people. Oxford University Press. 2016. p. 19
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The main goal of Zionism, namely, to establish an independent Jewish national home in the Land of Israel.
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| Charles Selengut. Our promised land: faith and militant Zionism in Israeli settlements. Rowman and Littlefield. 2015. p. 124
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Zionism, in this view, was not merely a political nationalist movement to aid a homeless people but a religious nationalism with messianic goals. "It is through the National of Israel, in its national character in the Land of Isarel, and in its statehood among the nations of the world, that the sanctification of Hashem's [God's] name appears.... The sanctification comes through the nation, the Tzibur, the congregation of Israel, which achieves its most complete expression in Statehood as we approach the messianic ideal."
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| James Marsh. The Canandian encyclopedia. McClelland and Stewart. 1999. p. 1214
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Zionism, aimed at the re-establishment of an independent national state in the ancient Jewish homeland.
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| Meirav Mishati-Ram. Conflict change and persistence: the India-Pakistan and Arab-Israel conflicts compared. Lexington Books. 2019. p. 157
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The establishment of the Zionist movement as a response to the plight of the persecuted Jews in 19th-century Europe was a revival of an ancient collective memory of the Jewish people that required the construction of a nation after many centuries of Diaspora life. The main goal of Zionism, as defined in Theodor Herzl's book The Jewish State and adopted by the first Zionist Congress, was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
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| Jacob M. Landau (Editor). Man, State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East (Routledge Library Editions: Society of the Middle East) Routledge. 2016.
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Zionism was, at one and the same time, an attempt to integrate Jewry as a cultural and political national group into the modern world in their ancient homeland, as well as a revolt against the then existing trend of assimilating Jews as individuals. This twofold mission was accomplished by adhering to modern European notions of nationhood and by resuscitating and reinforcing Jewish traditions and characteristics, including the fusion of nationhood and religion.
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| Shmuel Burmil (Autor), Ruth Enis (Autor). The Changing Landscape of a Utopia: The Landscape and Gardens of the Kibbutz - Past and Present (Grüne Reihe: Quellen und Forschungen zur Gartenkunst). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft. 2012. p. 13
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In Central and Western Europe, however, their existence as Jews was more threatened by assimilation. Zionism was a response to these threats. It was the concrete expression of the age--old dream of restoring Jewish independence in Eretz Israel.
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| Charles Selengut. Our promised land: faith and militant Zionism in Israeli settlements. Rowman and Littlefield. 2015. p. 124
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Zionism, in this view, was not merely a political nationalist movement to aid a homeless people but a religious nationalism with messianic goals. "It is through the Nation of Israel, in its national character in the Land of Israel, and in its statehood among the nations of the world, that the sanctification of Hashem's [God's] name appears....".
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| Barry Rubin. The Middle East: A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society, and Culture (Two Volume Set). Routledge. 2012. p. 90
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Zionism is the Jewish national movement that called for a return of the Jews to "Zion" - another name for Jerusalem but taken to refer to what is today Israel
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