[SeekAndFind]

Mordecai Noah sent Adams a copy of a recently published work about his travels, Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary States. By 1818, John Adams had poor vision, but excellent hearing; he would have an aid read to him.

On March 15, 1819, Adams responded:

I have been so pleased with it that I wish you had continued your travels into Syria Judea & Jerusalem… I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites indeed as well disciplin’d as a French army—& marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it—For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

[Larry Lucido]

I hear he even converted, for the jokes. But it's rumored that he hated dentists.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Zionism
Among the Jews, a theory, plan, or movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, or, if that is impracticable, elsewhere, either for religious or nationalizing purposes; — called also Zion movement.
(from the 1913 Websters.)
The term doesn’t appear in the 1828 edition.

[gitmo]

Bookmark for later. It looks inspiring.