Hakatan,
1 The new and more viscious Russian pogroms that began in the 1880’s and spurred mass migration had nothing to do with Zionism
2. The widespread death and destruction of Jewish communities of eastern Europe caught between the Russian and German armies in WW1 had nothing to do with Zionism
3. The millions of Jews caught in Communist Russia after the war and were effectively divorced from Yiddishkeit had nothing to do with Zionism.
4. Hitler’s rise to power had nothing to do with Zionism
5. The post war pogroms in Poland are an indication of what Jews would have continued to face, Israel or no Israel.
The point being, Jews have been massacred and shmadded in far greater numbers than caused by Zionism and who is say that it wouldn’t have continued if Zionism didn’t exist? History has shown that Jews would still be dying