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What you are asking, to put it in other terms, is if the Nazi’s (yms) are really all bad, since there were some exceptions where individual Nazi’s actually saved Jews. The answer there too is an unequivocal yes, you can clearly state that the Nazi’s were bad. Same with the zionists.
The NAZI movement was disgusting. They were built up the goal of destroying other “undesirables,” which were mostly Jews. They were a movement of hatred and murder.
Zionism is nothing like that. Zionism paved the way for many people to leave their own countries before WWII. Were there many problems with zionist leaders? Sure. And there were many problems with other Jews diong dispicable acts during the Holocaust.
You could also say things to the effect of “With so many Orthodox Jews in Jail, maybe Judaism is NOT a moral way of life. After all, there are so many corrupt Jews.” That is what you seem to be saying about Zionism.
Many of us view zionism as the start of geulah. Its a way of establishing infrastructure and life before the geulah comes. Werent Bnei Yisroel chastized for not wanting to come back to Israel post Churban I?