Even Israeli historians will happily blow your garbage alt-history out of the water for you.
“The idea of the Jews returning to their ancient homeland as the first step to world redemption seems to have originated among a specific group of evangelical English Protestants that flourished in England in the 1840s; they passed this notion on to Jewish circles.” - Anita Shapira
Even right-wing Israeli historians doesn’t claim anything that can be called “proto-zionism” with a straight-face that existed before 1860, genius.
Well, then you should try reading the second part of that sentence
So which part of…
No - it isn’t. Comparing Israel to Apartheid-South Africa is actually softballing it.
…are you having a hard time comprehending?
Ben Gurion is one of those hard-liners
In other words… just a Zionist that was schooled in the white supremacism, antisemitism and colonialism of “western civilization” - just another bog-standard colonizer who happened to be Jewish.