Abbott's comments don't have anything to do with Zionism, though. Regardless of whether you're Irish (Traveller or not), Jewish, or a redhead, the message is at best highly tactless.

Because of the history of interactions, Zionists might be especially eager to take her down a notch, but the message was ill-conceived completely without reference to Zionism.

You know, it's wrong for opposition to Zionism to be construed as antisemitism, but it's also wrong for concerns about antisemitism to be dismissed as Zionist terror tactics.