Avira , I suggest that you read Martin Gilbert’s “In Ishmael’s House”. First of all, the dhimmi laws also involved humiliating subservience. Jews could not build new synagogues and were required to step down and out of the way when passing a Muslim. In Yemen, girls whose fathers died were given to Muslim families (unless they were married – which is why they married so early). There were forced conversions *see “Iggeret haShmad”), blood libels, and massacres from the time of Mohammed’s genocide of Arabian Jewry. Zionism gave the Jews a place to go. It also shut up missionaries who were claiming that the Holocaust proved that they were right all along, c”v (even Rav Soloveichik was accosted on multiple occasions). Most importantly, Zionism re-established the Jewish state. Yes, it has imperfections. So do children and parents. So does a shul. Would you desert them because of their imperfections?
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