WIY, a cursory glance at the Israeli news here on YWN indicates that Zionist shmad is still very much in force.
The ever-present goal and indeed raison d’etre of Zionism is shmad, to create a new Jew on the ashes of Judaism, CH”V. This has not changed. In fact, it is now, in some ways, worse because of the current intensification of shmading charedim.
It’s not as you think that “[t]hese people don’t even know what they are protesting.” Perhaps it is you who doesn’t understand what it is they are (and, perhaps everyone should be) protesting.