Zionist entity (Arabic: الكيان الصهيوني, al-kiyān al-Sihyawniyy), Zionist regime (Persian: رژیم صهیونیستی, rezhim-e Sahyonisti), and Zionist enemy are interchangeable pejorative terms used predominantly by Arabs and Muslims in reference to the State of Israel. Many commentators believe that the terms are used to de-legitimize Israeli sovereignty by attempting to push a narrative in which Israel is nothing more than a settler-colonial project. The terms also pin an alternative definition to Zionism (the Jewish nationalist movement that led to Israel's founding), primarily through the implication that Zionism is an ideology centred on racial discrimination.