Zionism IS antisemitic, the central tenant of Zionism is that Jews indigenous from Europe don’t actually belong there, that they are strangers and should go away make their own homeland.
It’s an excuse for advocating for ridding Europe of Jews while pretending to care about Jews, it allow true antisemites to pretend it’s the ones who are against them who are antisemitic for not thinking that Jews should leave Europe and “go back to their country”.
Just to stress this point a little more, guess who was very on board with Zionism:
Zionism IS antisemitic, the central tenant of Zionism is that Jews indigenous from Europe don’t actually belong there, that they are strangers and should go away make their own homeland.
It’s an excuse for advocating for ridding Europe of Jews while pretending to care about Jews, it allow true antisemites to pretend it’s the ones who are against them who are antisemitic for not thinking that Jews should leave Europe and “go back to their country”.
Just to stress this point a little more, guess who was very on board with Zionism:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536016
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history/article/abs/zionism-and-antisemitism-in-nazi-germany-by-francis-r-nicosia-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-2008-pp-xiv324-cloth-8500-isbn-9780521883924/4723710B5739FA79BAA5813A987E2F7B
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Zionist_Relations_With_Nazi_German.html