1. A person , Jewish or non-Jewish, who, by some action, supports the State of Israel.

2. A substitue word for 'jew' used by anti-semites who, for whatever reason, wish to hide their racist intent.

One who supports the state of Israel.

Today, the word is mostly used as a politically correct substitute for "kike."

Zionist is anybody of Modern Jewry from the late 1880 to Present who believe that Jewish people whether religious or not should have their own land. People of Modern Jewry are: a mixed of Jewish people from Israel back before Jesus (he was jewish though), Jews from the Rhineland, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Spain, and yes the Ruling class of the Khazaria Kingdom did convert to Judaism and yes we are guessing that part of the population converted too. With that in mind, we also had intelligent Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Americans, and other nations marrying into the Jewish Populations and were eventually absorbed into the Jewish Population as well.

With this being said, the original Land was supposed to be divided up into two countries by the United Nations, Israel and Palestine but the Palastineans never wanted this to happen even though a number of these same people sold their land to European Jews because European Jews were willing to pay more, and the land of Palestine was under British Mandate. The effect cause of this is Israeli's that got sick and tired of the hate directed at them, and Palastineans that don't seem to mind to live in squalor for 50 years.

Before Judaism was a religion, it was a nation. For 13 centuries there was a nation of Israel. Zionism is simply the modern political movement to liberate Jews from the ovens of Europe and centuries of Muslim oppression and reestablish Jewish self-determination on the land that historically gave birth to the Jewish people.

Hypocritically, many people who harbor animus toward Jews and Israel refuse to grant this right to Jews, although they are eager to grant the right of self-determination to Palestinian Arabs...even though there are over 20 Arab countries in existence and even more Muslim countries. One such Muslim country is actually located in historic Palestine and is called Jordan.

The true owners who built the land of Israel up from a barron wasteland desert- only to be persecuted by Arabs who wanted the land but were unable to build anything themselves. So after the Jews- who make up Zionism civilized the area- Muslim Arabs started murdering them to take over the land. Then as an excuse to murder other people, the Muslims started an "intifada" because they are so unproductive and have nothing better to do.

A term misused by idiots, bigots and people who generally don't know what the heck zionism is. Mainly used by people looking to scapegoat Jews and blame them for all the problems of society without looking overly anti-semitic. Of course, people with brains see through this usage and realize people who used zionist outside the context of a discussion of support or lack of support of Israel are really talking about Jews.

A racist individual who uses Judaism and his/her goal in supporting Israel as an excuse to occupy, control, and subdue an entire group of people. Zionists do not believe in the true teachings of Judaism, rather they abuse it much like Bin Laden abuses the Muslim religion. They believe the Jewish race is a superior race, and that every other race/people should serve them.