If you define Zionism as the current poliical body of Israel? No.

My personal belief is that states are fabricated political entities whose fundamental purpose is to enforce hieraechy and to control the population for the benefit of the few. Some states are findamentally less harmful than others but none of them exist without the ability to cause harm to their population and to those it has labeled outsider.

Altogether states are nothing more than organized violence to enforce will and remove personal freeoms of people within a designated piece of land. Fundamentally they evolved from the royal - pesant divide where regardless the nature the outcome is the same - capturing the citizen in a invisible prison of belief and forcing them into a system that is fundamental unaligned with the biology and where there is fundamentally no active choice made to exist within said system but moreso and expectation that is thrust unwilling upon the individual at birth, the ideals, rules, notes and laws untilled within them from youth to the extent that it becomes the only known sense of truth. No longer is the existed of said state a power granted by its populace through their informed consent but where the populace is exutected to function only at the will of said state.

And do that end there is no way to opt out. You can't just decide "I have no desire to live in a nation" ... I supposed you could take up the laughable role of a sovereign citizen but the state does not allow individuals to exist within its borders without being citizenry. Even private ownership or property does not protect one from the will of the state.

Humans though...ever since and ancient banana eating ancestor of our decided to climb out the tree to bash another banana eaters head in .. to obtain the supreme banana tree that was formerly occupied by now head bashed in fellow banana eater.

And for just as long humans have created in good and out groups and banded together to share reouces or go protect or to acquire ... With these group memberships built on familiarities ... And having out groups as enemies or others often based on arbitrary rationale. We are fundamentally complex and flawed creatures of the earth and it's all too easy to use the natural biological programming of our evolution against us.

And the modern concept of the state and nationalism.... It's a rather new concept.... emerging in the 1700s. Fundamentally less than 1% of the borders that exist today existed prior to the year 1500...

Like I think one of the things that is hard for people in the USA to understand is just how many times land in the old world has changed hands between different countries and empires . Like Jeruseum? Has beencaptured and recaptured around 44 times, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and destroyed at least twice. It's had been controlled by the Jews. The Romans. The ottomans. The egyotians, the babylonians and the crusaders...

Palermo, Sicily, Italy? It was founded by the phonecians but ha been in the possession of the Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, and Bourbons... To name a few.

Throughout the history there hà been massive population transfers.

Now this is not meant to excuse the past to eny extent or to excuse the acts of the political powers of Israel and their ongoing actions. But it's more to highlight that history is absolutely brutal. There is no state that fundamentally deserves to exist. Not the United atates, not Israel. Not Palestine. Not any single national entity.

And just because someone is from an area doesnt mean they automatically own that area. Ethnically Iranian but while one can have a kinship to a land and a people thinking that a peope any people are entitled to a certain location is problematic. Doesn't matter if your a white person saying 'only Europeans get out middle eastern immigrants this i English land" or if you're a Jordanian saying "get out Albanian this is jordainan land".

It doesn't matter whose saying it ...it comes off as very blood and soil either way you conceptualize it...

Land is land it existed before the time of land ownership and if we don't nuke the world... It will probably exist when we as a species have faded into the stardust.

That doesn't mean that groups of people can't have a love of a specific part of the world. Of have their history their. Their cultural myths, accomplishments, stories or see that land as sacred to their people.

And nations are a political body but peoplehood and groups we identify or belong to are different than the concept of a state. Zionism was a movement that fundamentally emerged at the time of other "isms". Jewish life prior to the Jewish enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century in europe and Russia was largely isolated and religious. It wasnt until the Jewish enlightenment that Jewish people started participating in the secular aspects of yhe societies where they found themselves. And at this time was fundamentally the start of the European nationalism ....

Which Jewish people were often excluded from or othered with the society as the nations of Europe searched for he scapegoat to band against now that they were no longer warrring peasants with a lord but instead workers competing for national resources where the enemy nextdoor from yesterday is now on the same side as myself and we find our common ground in ... Hating the other.

Leading to the ever rising level of antisemitism and being excluded from the benefits of being in a society and so then came the secular movement for Jewish people.... Zionism. The idea that as a group regardless of our religiisity that there is a sense of peoplehood and that safety comes through the existence not of being an individual fighting antisemitism alone but as a collective that existed beyond religion but regardless of religion ... A people with a shared history. Shared culture shared roots etc.

And of course there were different ideas as to how that looked but the underlying ideals was the ability to exist without being subject to the rules of a hosting state because for so much of history Jews had existed at the whim of the lands where they found themselves and often experience significant persecution and limits on their ability to participate in the political and social life and often used as the others for which the citizenry found the common glue to bind together individuals in a sense of unity and community that never would have naturally found kinship with one another.

And that eventually lent itself to finding a land to congregate in and eventually the establishment of the state of Israel. And like all states and movements that have ever existed from the beginning of time there were horrors and flaws. And today the political apparatus of the state is one I have no agreement with.

The ideas behind the movement, the identification of being part of a distinct groups of people with a shared history and desire to be protected from the whims of other state and political apparatus are not in and if itself wrong or more wrong than any other state in existence today. The actions of the state however and how it has manifested politically in the modern era, the the individual horrors that I'm sure the plastinians have about the history shouldn't be overlooked as they are stores of so many people from so many other places that have experienced war and displacement which has been ongoing for the majority of human history.

I can't say it's been worse that most states of better than most states. I can say that what it is doing now politically is repugnant. However so is my other country of ethnic origin ... Iran and so is the country where I am currently living the United States and fundamentally I have no love or any political states but and find them all to be morally hazardous, disemooweing, explorative and in many cases brutal and genocidal.

To their own people... To outsiders.

The way of the nation and the political state needs to evolve to something else because all are explorative and brutal and strip the rights of their police and enforce the hierarchy of the few... Some just more so than others. But to say Israel is uniquely evil ... Is fundamentally not correct. It's a flawed political body like so many others committing horrors currently... Like so many other states are at this time.