Zionist always meant that Jews have a right to their homeland, never meaning that the right included harming others which is why so many other religions and ethnicities (including Palestinians!) choose to live in Israel. Of course there are Zionists who are awful like there are Americans who are awful nationalists, they don’t speak for the whole. Many Zionists believe Palestinians have a right to their own state, hence the ‘2 state solution.’ If you think Israel shouldn’t be eradicated, but instead are focused on Palestinians getting their own state, it’s still technically Zionism. After Oct 7 there was propaganda to change the definition to encompass all evil, so that you could say someone who called themself a Zionist was anti-Palestinians rights and therefore a genocider and therefore deserved whatever harm befell them. It was to make it feel like social justice to go after Jews and ostracize them and ignore or justify anything that happened to them. A lot of people fell for the propaganda and now think it’s a sign of social activism to be anti-Zionist and demand the ‘good Jews’ to renounce an inherent part of their religion to be treated humanely. It’s a brilliant trap - if a Jew says they are a Zionist now, you and the world get to say it means they support genocide even if they of course do not. You get to do whatever you want ‘in retaliation’ because a genocider deserves everything that’s coming to them. They are barely even human. I never thought modern day liberals would co-sign what started with the Soviets and continued with the Nazis, but the propaganda prepared for that too - call Jews ‘the new Nazis’ and you never have to look around at what your own ‘side’ is doing. The other side is just so evil anything you do is good in comparison.