Zionist entity

English

Etymology

Calque of Arabic الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyūniyy).

Proper noun

the Zionist entity (Middle East, derogatory or dysphemistic)

1. Israel, viewed by Arabs, Palestinians and their supporters as an illegitimate regime ruled by Zionists.
   • c. 2014, Kenneth L. Marcus, “Fact Sheet on the Elements of Anti-Semitic Discourse”, in Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law‎^[1]:

     This view is expressed in efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and is reflected in terms like “the Zionist entity” as a disparaging synonym for the Jewish state.

   • 2020 December 12, “Algeria PM on Israel-Morocco deal: ‘Zionist entity’ wants to be near our borders”, in Times of Israel‎^[2]:

     “There is now a desire by the Zionist entity to come closer to our borders,” he added, in reference to Israel.

   • 2020 December 23, “Algeria decries neighbor Morocco’s normalized Israel ties”, in Associated Press‎^[3]:

     He (Abdelaziz Djerad) also complained of “a desire to bring the Israeli and Zionist entity to our borders.”

   • 2021 December 26, “Zionist entity to double settlers in occupied Golan”, in Kuwait Times‎^[4]:

     The government of the Zionist entity yesterday approved a $317 million plan to double the Zionist settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.

   • 2022 September 8, “Zionist Entity investigates reported sexual assault scandal at Zionist representation in Morocco”, in Al Mayadeen‎^[5]:

     The Zionist Entity has summoned its ambassador to Morocco, David Govrin, over accusations of sexual assault and corruption, Zionist media outlets have reported.

   • 2023 October 14, Lawrence Freedman, “No end in sight”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:

     More seriously, while Hamas has agreed in the past to ceasefires and to accepting the possibility of a two-state solution if Israel returned to its pre-1967 borders, it refuses to acknowledge the permanence of the “Zionist entity”.

Translations

pejorative term for the State of Israel

• Arabic: الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ m (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyūniyy)
• French: entité sioniste (fr) f
• Hebrew: הַיְּשׁוּת הַצִּיּוֹנִית f (ha-yeshút ha-tsiyonít), הַמִּשְׁטָר הַצִּיּוֹנִי m (ha-mishtár ha-tsiyoní)
• Italian: entità sionista f, regime sionista m
• Malay: rejim Zionis (ms)
• Persian: رژیم صهیونیستی (režim-e sayhunisti)
• Russian: сиони́стское образова́ние n (sionístskoje obrazovánije)
• Spanish: entidad sionista f, régimen sionista m
• Urdu: صیہونی وجود m (saihūnī vajūd), صہیونی وجود m (sahyūnī vajūd)

Further reading

• Zionist entity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia