Elaboration. A reader (Benjamin S. of MIT) sent me a message complaining about my post below about Zionism-is-racism. And since I could not reply to the email (it required a digitial ID), I will respond here. Benjamin asked whether my slogan is not equivalent to "Islam is terrorism" or "Pan-Arabism is racism". And the answer is, methodologically, no. To brand Zionism as racism (and this evokes a UN General Assembly resolution which carries the wight of the (real) international community much more than the Security Council, is to render a negative judgment on an ideology. Also, to state that a certain deed is an exemplification of Zionism is to contrast--very sharply--the practices of Zionism with the highly false image and status that Zionism occupies in the American intellectual (and political imagination). Similarly, to cast a negative label on Zionism is not equivalent to casting a negative spell on Pan-Arabism, or Arab nationalism. It is not the same. To criticize or oppose Zionism is not to categorically reject or oppose Jewish nationalism, for example. Zionism is a form of Jewish nationalism: other forms of Jewish nationalism existed before the formation of political or gun Zionism, and others could exist that don't seek the displacement of an already existing nation. But I don't mind putting a negative cast on a, say, strand of Arab nationalism: like saying that Ba`this-is-torture, for example.