Zionophobia en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)bor. Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn)bor. Latin Sīōnder. Old English Syon Middle English Sion ▲ Early New High German Zioninflu. English Zion Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English Zionophobia From Zion + -o- + -phobia. First use appears c. 1919. See cite below.
Meanings
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(uncommon, uncountable) An irrational fear, hatred, or prejudice against Zionism.
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
[1919, Zionist Organization of America, Annual Convention, Volume 22, page 27: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.
1952, Eugene Kohn, Ira Eisenstein (editors), Mordecai M. Kaplan, An Evaluation, page 238:Arabism or any Biblical romanticism about the Holy Land, were the fuel which fed his Zionophobia.
1978, Phillip J. Baram, The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919-1945, page 86: