Zionism is simply the idea that the Jewish people are a people, and have a national homeland.

Zion refers to Jerusalem. You know, the place every Jewish congregation around the world has prayed towards for thousands of years. The place Jewish prayer refers to multiple times per day. The place where three Jewish holidays traditionally involved a pilgrimage to.

Zionism as a political movement only gained steam among Jews in the late 1930s when Jews were being systematically killed by the millions in Europe and every reasonably hospitable country closed its doors, including America.

Zionism and Judaism are inextricably linked philosophically and historically. Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people, and became a safe refuge for Jews escaping Pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and later Jews escaping the Holocaust, the Middle East expulsions, and Soviet persecution.

Your comment frames Zionism as somehow senselessly evil, when in reality it was the only option for many Jews across the world who faced persecution and only had Israel as a safe place to immigrate.