::Well, Scottish nationalism (or Greek nationalism) in the 19th and early 20th century sense is very similar to Zionism, in that it was the hope to establish a nation for Scots or Greeks where none existed, rather than as an effort to incorporate all the people of a territory into a nation.  The idea of the nation-state that rose in the 19th century was due to the changing definition from ethnicity to nationhood, although European states are increasingly multi-ethnic states today. Besides, even the Journal of Palestine Studies (Winter, 1972), pp. 35-51, states "Zionism first emerged as a doctrine of Jewish nationalism."  Again unless you can cite sources about ethnic nationalism, there doesn't seem to be a strong defense for not just calling it nationalism.