Originally Posted by
Ohev Yisrael
A "Zionist" is meant to refer to someone who believes in and supports the legitimacy of modern's Israel's existence. By that definition, a lot of people not just Jews are "Zionists."
But often it is used as a term of derision by those who reject Israel's legitimacy and in some cases, even Christians can be anti-Zionists, which is tragic. Jews who are patriotic are Zionists and that term is used, when it comes to Jewish people to describe patriotic Israeli Jewish people or Jewish people who are not Israeli but support Israel.