PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palestinian Islamic Jihad mean? 

• PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD (noun)
  The noun PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD has 1 sense:

1. a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas

  Familiarity information: PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini; Palestine Islamic Jihad; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; PIJ

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)