Toi and “About Time” :
Herzl was born in 1860 (died in 1904) and had barely any connection with Judaism until the Dreyfus affair in 1894. His book “der Judenstaat’ was written in 1895/96. (all from wikipedia). So, the idea of political zionism was not on anyone’s agenda until those years. I truly don’t know how RSR Hirsch could be against political Judaism- a movement that did not exist until well after his death.
So, please provide examples of RSR Hirsch being anti-Zionist. You surely cannot imply that he was against any “alyah’ to Eretz Yisorel, something jews had been doing for centuries , including the perushim and talmidei HaBesht. There clearly was am movement of “Chovevei Zion’ (led by great rabbonim,including the Netziv, I think) before Herzl but it also started in RSR Hirsch’s later years (1880’s). Please provide any cogent writings from RHR HIRSCH that support your comments.