I am proud to call myself an American Zionist. In many quarters, being called a Zionist is an insult. Some applicants for positions are being asked to confirm that they aren’t Zionist. So are authors. Jews are accused of being Zionists, as if it were a term of opprobrium. It should not be a term of opprobrium to reasonable people who understand its true meaning. 

To be a Zionist means only one thing: a belief in Israel’s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland. Zionists believe that the Jewish people, like other groups, have the right to an independent state in which all are treated equally.