My response was in the context of that one spefic remark, earlier.
Apart from that, sure many nuances can be made, ofc.
But afaik, it was a Jewish person ( Herzl) who initiated it, and later asked support from European powers. wiki Zionism
"The Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews to rising antisemitism in Europe, exemplified by the Dreyfus affair in France and the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire. The political movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book Der Judenstaat"