Flashcards: Zionist organizations

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or CAMERA, is an American non-profit pro-Israel media-monitoring, research and membership organization.

HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael (Hebrew: ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל‎‎, lit. "General Organisation of Workers in the Land of Israel"), known as the Histadrut, is Israel's organization of trade unions.

Taglit-Birthright Israel (Hebrew: תגלית‎‎), also known as Birthright Israel or simply Birthright, is a not-for-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults of Jewish heritage, aged 18–26.

Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire in about the turn of the 20th century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.

The Betar Movement (בית"ר, also spelled Beitar} is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during World War II. After the war and during the settlement of what became Israel, Betar was traditionally linked to the original Herut and then Likud political parties of Jewish pioneers. It was closely affiliated with the pre-Israel Revisionist Zionist splinter group Irgun Zevai Leumi. It was one of many right-wing movements and youth groups arising at that time that adopted salutes and uniforms. Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth, most notably prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, an admirer of Jabotinsky.

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), founded in 1897, was one of the first official Zionist organizations in the United States, and, especially early in the 20th century, the primary representative of American Jews to the World Zionist Organization, espousing primarily Political Zionism.

Kadimah (Hebrew: קדימה‎‎, lit. Forwards) was the first Jewish student association in Vienna, founded many years before Theodor Herzl became the leading spokesman of the Zionist movement.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC /ˈeɪpæk/ AY-pak) is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States.

Revisionist Zionism is a faction within the Zionist movement.

Hashomer was originated by Socialist Zionists, mostly members of Poale Zion, including Israel Shochat, Manya Shochat, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Ben-Zvi's wife Rachel Yanait, several of whom had earlier formed a small secret guard society called Bar-Giora, which guarded the Sejera commune (now Ilaniya) and Mes'ha (now Kfar Tavor).

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jewish volunteer women's organization.

Partners for Progressive Israel (formerly Meretz USA) is a non-governmental organization and registered 501(c)3 devoted to civil rights in Israel, and human rights throughout the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Ephraim Israel National Convention is/was a regional political party in the Indian state of Mizoram.

Ephraim Union is a regional political party in the Indian state of Mizoram.

Aytzim (meaning "trees" in Hebrew), formerly Green Zionist Alliance, is a New York-based Jewish environmental organization that is a U.

The World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS /ˈwuːdʒᵻs/) (Hebrew: ההתאחדות העולמית של הסטודנטים היהודים; French: L’Union Mondiale des Etudiants Juifs; Spanish: Union Mundial de Estudiantes Judios; Russian: Всемирный союз еврейских студентов) is the international, pluralistic, non-partisan umbrella organisation of independent Jewish student groups in 38 countries.

The Yesha Council (Hebrew: מועצת יש"ע‎‎, Mo'etzet Yesha, which is the Hebrew acronym for Yehuda Shomron, Aza, lit. "Judea Samaria and Gaza Council") is an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank (and formerly in the Gaza Strip), known by the Hebrew acronym Yesha.

The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) is an organization that uses social media to mobilize support for campaigns against websites and Facebook groups that promote or praise what it describes as Islamic terrorism or antisemitism.

Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation (MFF), was founded by Adam and Gila Milstein in 2000to strengthen the State of Israel, and its special ties with the United States of America; as well as to ensure the Jewish identity along with the special affinity to the State of Israel of the young and future Jewish generations.

Tzvi (Tziki) Avisar (Hebrew: צבי (ציקי) אבישר; born September 16, 1978) is the Founder and the Chairman of Over The Rainbow – the Zionist movement a World Zionist Congress faction.

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) (in Hebrew ארגון ידידי צה״ל בארה״ב) is an organization established in 1981 dedicated to the men and women serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), wounded veterans, and the families of fallen soldiers.

The Alliance for New Zionist Vision (ANZV; Hebrew: ברית חזון) is a coalition of grassroots educational and activist movements that ran in the 2015 American Zionist Movement elections for the 37th World Zionist Congress with the stated goals of making Zionism relevant to Jewish young adults, improving pro-Israel advocacy on North American university campuses, identifying the next major goals of Jewish history and giving a voice at the official Zionist movement to young activists on the front lines of Jewish social and political struggles.

My Israel (Hebrew: ישראל שלי‎‎, Yisra'el Sheli) is an Israel right wing extra-parliamentary movement.

The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash (Hebrew: מכון המקדש‎‎), is an organization in Israel focusing on the controversial endeavor of establishing the Third Temple.

Im Tirtzu (Hebrew: אם תרצו, lit. 'If you will it') is a Zionist extra-parliamentary group based in Israel.

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), formerly the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, was founded in 2004 as the principal advocacy, oversight and co-ordinating body for a number of Jewish Canadian organizations including the Canada-Israel Committee (and the Quebec-Israel Committee), the Canadian Jewish Congress/United Jewish Appeal and National Jewish Campus Life.

The American Zionist Movement (AZM) is the American federation of Zionist groups and individuals affiliated with the World Zionist Organization.

AMIT (Hebrew acronym for Organization for Volunteers for Judaism and Torah, English acronym for Americans for Israel and Torah, and a homonym in Hebrew for friend) is an American Jewish religious Zionist volunteer organization, dedicated to education in Israel.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (also The Fellowship) is a philanthropic organization founded in 1983 by Yechiel Eckstein whose stated goal is to promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians, and build broad support for the State of Israel.

TIP was the first Jewish or pro-Israel group to host Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad in the United States.