Zionophobia

English

Etymology

From Zion +‎ -o- +‎ -phobia. First use appears c. 1919. See cite below.

Noun

Zionophobia (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) An irrational fear, hatred, or prejudice against Zionism.
    • 1919, Zionist Organization of America, Annual Convention, Volume 22, page 27:
      peculiar brood, happily few, which is infected with a peculiar form of rabies which may be termed "Zionophobia," nor yet, that smaller, ever dwindling, number whose only chance in the lime-light is by way of bitter, slanderous denunciations
    • 1952, Eugene Kohn, Ira Eisenstein (editors), Mordecai M. Kaplan, An Evaluation, page 238:
      So far, in fact, that the pitiful few within Reform who are afflicted with Zionophobia have found it necessary to cling with frantic compulsion to the rigid patterns of their past.
    • 1978, Phillip J. Baram, The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919-1945, page 86:
      Arabism or any Biblical romanticism about the Holy Land, were the fuel which fed his Zionophobia.