Zionism needs to be understood as a secular political ideology http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/477.php

In other words, for Israel and its allies, apartheid is good for business. As Naomi Klein exposed in The Shock Doctrine (2008), the post 9/11 global increase in racial profiling of the Arabic and Muslim populations has been a boost to manufacture and export for Israeli industry. Israel's economic boom is tightly linked to the military and security sectors, where testing is done on the local Palestinian population prior to seeking international export markets.Security systems are a major growth area for Israeli capitalism, refined in erecting barriers, surveillance techniques, and systems of regulation and control designed to limit and monitor Palestinian access to Israeli occupied land, roads, schools, hospitals and services. A detailed study by Israeli scholar Neve Gordon explains the pattern:“There is no dispute that many of Israel's homegrown technological skills were honed inside secret military labs and that military research has given Israel a clear lead in vital aspects of telecommunications and software technology” (Gordon, 2009).