>>>>The Torah teaches us here not to stand up against the nations even when they confront us. …Translation from “Shapiro, Rabbi Yaakov. The Empty Wagon:
This is a third hand quote from a sefer that wasn’t written by the Chofetz Chaim. You can be sure that the guy who wrote it didn’t give a hoot about the Chotfetz’s Chaim actual view on Zionism and only took what he could to brainwash his readers .
The view of the CC about Zionism is very unclear because he himself never wrote anything directly on the topic. Not only that, some of things he did write is used by the Mizrachi movement as proof he supported some of their goals . No one denies that he supported mass Aliyah and(frum) building up of Eretz Yisroel. Rav Leib Popkou (the son of the Choftez Chaim who wrote the Mishna Brurua with him was a member of Mizrachi. First on it’s Vaad Haruchni. He later became president of Mizrachi in Poland . I’m sure Shapiro didn’t tell you that. Rav Leib Popkou wrote in his biography about his father that the CC did see the wave of Aliyah after the expulsion of Jews from parts of Russia as the start of Kibbutz Goluyus. He writes much more on the topic beyond the scope of this post but he also wrote that his father was in fact anti-Zionist but he was never extreme about it and he opposed the anti-Zionist Kanoim too.