Ethno-states were all the rage in 19th-century Europe. Everywhere they got into power, they oppressed religious and ethnic minorities and in some cases resorted to ethnic cleansing. The usual result is a deracinated one-size-fits-all national identity based on some self-serving myths about the dominant group, with resultant loss of diversity in the face of coerced conformity.

And now you have Castilians putting the boot to Catalans, Basques and Galicians, Serbs shitting on Bosnian Muslims, Croats and anyone else who’s not Serbian, everyone fucking with Roma people, Germans in the 20th century murdering Jews, Turks murdering Armenians and expelling ethnic Greeks, and so forth ad nauseam.

The Zionists are no different in this regard, except perhaps that more effort went into constructing a Jewish national identity after than wide cultural divergences that occurred in the Diaspora-- for example, reviving the Hebrew language, which hadn’t been in household use among Jewish people for over two millennia (for example, people in Roman-occupied Palestine spoke Aramaic or koine Greek).

And if it hasn’t been made abundantly clear: I despite ethno-nationalism and regard it as a proto-fascist ideology that has caused untold harm. Only the few countries that decoupled ethnicity from national identity (such as Scotland and some of the Northern Tier countries) have avoided becoming brainless dystopic hellholes.

They’re nationalists, yes. Specifically early Zionists wanted to form a Socialist State.

That is, they’re National Socialists.