Authored by: העורך Editor
The word has come in time to mean Jews taking over a given territory, presumably because the Jews then make its character Jewish, but the word itself appears to me to simply mean “making Jewish”, ורבים מעמי הארץ מתיהדים, or anti-antinomianism, lav davka via geography and gentrification.
There is a difference between ייהוד and יהודיזציה.