Not quite sure what anyone means by this use of the term "Zionism" & its derivatives in a pejorative sense. It was the name of an international Jewish movement from late C19 to the proclamation of Israel in 1948, to re-establish a Jewish state in the original, traditional biblical region where the Jews had lived until the Roman conquest & the diaspora. What its unfavourable connotation may be in the senses it is being used at present by Israel's denunciators, as eg in Stringfellow's post above, is something I can by no means fathom.

This is in no way intended as a defence of those parts of Israeli policy which are agreed to be regrettable: simply a semantic enquiry.

~M~