More and more, I see Zionism as a cover for something else.
If one looks at BHL (Bernard Henry Lévy), or other various alleged Frenchy Zionists - one sees those embed in sinister things (aka Epstein & child criminality).
I believe few people truly believe in Zionism per se; I may be wrong. Those French political figures, branding themselves "Zionists", are onto something else.. Completely different.
"Political ponerology" explains how ideologies sometimes act as a springboard for something completely different (high level psychopaths). The more simplistic the ideology, the easiest it will be for the basic "process": paraziting it, growing from the inside & preserving the front name (in this case, "Zionism"). It starts up at some early point, then the original ideology "decreases", to make place for the "paraziting host".
Overall, an ideology, Zionism, which started "genuine" and which quickly became the meeting point for "alien" things (or STS, or psychopaths etc). I suppose wherever there is Zionism - we better consider it for what's inside it.
I doubt original Zionism made its way through time. What we've got today is a dead ideology with some stuff inside.
<> When news, reports, professionals, anchorpeople, etc - mention Zionism - I think we ought to consider that those are scratching the surface and that there is something inside (not the content that they report on). We'd get a bit back from the basic "approach" and we may earn in objectivity. How far is the content from the ideology name?!
From Hitler, Stalin, to Mao, to 2020's capitalism - it appears that it has been the same content. That is why people today mention "Marxism". They stare at the "content" and they try to match their personal knowledge. This content has been named "pathocracy" (I am simplifying).
Nazism > the host
Communism > the host
Mao > the host
2020 Capitalism > the host (for lack of better knowledge, people have been using "neoliberalism": it's not far)
All those movements have been hijacked by the same "thing" and evolved the same way. The host preserved the name of the ideology; it's a facade hiding the same thing all the time.
I believe Zionism has not been exempt from the "process" ("ponerization") because it has been a while since it's around - and it's really a very low ideology. It's pathological from the start, and it gathers some amount of people. The pathology will kickstart the ponerization process - and a huge amount of adherent will make it "attractive", because it can touch many, and grow. I think that has been one of the STS "bridges".