Zion/Palestine

Vocabulary Words

Word

Definition

United Nations

International organization (1945) to

increase political and economic
cooperation among member
countries.
A movement that encouraged Jews
to return to Palestine.

Zionism

Refugee

Exile

Immigrants

A person who flees a country

because of war, disaster, or
persecution.
Forced removal from ones native
country
A person who comes to a country to
take up residence.

Anti-Semitism

A historical region of Southwest Asia

in roughly the same area as modern
Israel and the West Bank. Often
called the Holy Land.
An ethnic group representing the
modern descendants of the peoples
who have lived in Palestine.
Prejudice against or hostility toward
Jews.

holocaust

The mass killing of European Jews

and others by the Nazis during WWII

Palestine

Palestinian

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